Migration wiki page

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Feb 17 15:55:01 PST 2012


On Feb 17, 2012, at 17:26, Jacob Schwartz wrote:

>> The migration instructions do have you uninstall and reinstall all ports.
> 
> Yes, I wasn't saying that they were functionally different.  I was
> saying that the time to get to the same result was orders of magnitude
> faster.  The uninstall command was taking forever.  If I could achieve
> the same result in seconds using "rm", I'd prefer to do that.

It is preferable to use "sudo port uninstall", if it works, since that will also uninstall any files certain ports might have installed to unexpected locations that are not listed in the generic catch-all uninstall instructions.




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