Upgrading to Lion - having problems with migration instructions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 23, 2011, at 18:10, Thomas Gederberg wrote:

> I want to upgrade to Lion and am trying to follow the instructions from the MacPorts Migration page (https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration) but the instructions are not very clear (at least to me).
> 
> Under reinstall ports is says:
> 
> 1. Save the list of installed ports:
> 
>     port -qv installed > myports.txt
> 
> 2. Uninstall all installed ports:
> 
>    sudo port -f uninstall --follow-dependents installed
> 
> 3. Clean any partially-completed builds and remove any archives:
> 
>    sudo port clean --work --archive all
> 
> First I assume the above steps should be done prior to installing Lion.

It does not matter.


> Second, when I tried doing
> sudo port clean --work --archive all
> 
> I get the following error:
> $ sudo port clean --work --archive all
> Password:
> Error: clean does not accept --archive

Hmm, I guess that went away in MacPorts 2.0.0.


> I then tried it without the --archive command:
> 
> $ sudo port clean --work
> Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not find Portfile in /Users/tgederberg/Documents").
> Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
> To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.

You forgot to specify which ports you want to clean ("all"):

sudo port clean --work all