cloning an entire Macports installation to a 2nd Mac?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Oct 21 13:45:29 PDT 2008


On Oct 21, 2008, at 15:38, David Stein wrote:

> I'd like to copy my entire Macports installation from one 10.4 Mac to
> another.  Both are Intels.  I'm aware of Binary Archives (e.g. "port
> archive logrotate") and Binary Packages (e.g. "port pkg pstree"), but
> is there a simple solution given that I want to clone *everything*?
> Perhaps I can just tar & copy all directories mentioned in the
> uninstall documentation:
>
> http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.uninstalling
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.  I didn't see this issue addressed  
> by the FAQ.

Sure, you could tar and copy as you suggest. Make sure both machines  
have the same version of Mac OS X, X11, Xcode...



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