MacPorts Migration Problems

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Mar 3 03:43:41 PST 2011


On 03/02/2011 11:08 PM, Scott Webster wrote:
> Those instructions basically accomplish reinstalling base and then
> reinstalling all your ports though, right?  I definitely agree that
> it's good to have migration instructions available, but it seems to me
> that it's pretty much starting over.

With the 'portdbformat sqlite' the target platform version is stored and
it will be easier to rebuild anything still installed for the old platform.

Rainer


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