"sudo port upgrade outdated" fills HDD

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:24, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:

> I just installed a backup of my dev laptop's drive with 10.5 on a mini (whose internal drive recently turned into a brick), and upgraded the OS to 10.6. (Yup, Family edition.)
> 
> I remember having to tear down and rebuild my whole MacPorts entourage on my laptop after the 10.5->10.6 update. Nothing really worked properly until I did it.

That's correct; you do have to do that.


> Is there a reliable, scripted way to do this, instead of the adhoc way I chose to do it last time?
> 
> I started the process on the mini with an attempted selfupdate, but it failed, so right at the git-go the wholesale update process looks a bit ragged.

Read the Migration page:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration