Re-do MacPorts after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PPC?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Mar 13 08:44:39 PDT 2009


Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:57:17PM -0700, Jerry said:
>>> I just upgraded the OS from Tiger to Leopard on PPC. Do I need to re-
>>> install any or all of my MacPorts stuff?
>>
>> Yes, unfortunately MacPorts doesn't handle that case well since many
>> ports
>> you have installed were probably built with 10.4-specific bits.  The
>> safest
>> method is to move /opt/local aside (eg, to /opt/local-10.4), do a new
>> MacPorts install then install those ports you want/need.  You can use
>> 'port
>> installed' prior to moving /opt/local aside to see what you currently
>> have.
>>
>> Bryan
> 
> 
> Could you force a rebuild?
> 
> port -f upgrade installed

Nope. Selected darwin_8* variants would be preserved. This is fixed in
trunk.

- Josh


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