Automatically reinstall ports (UPDATE)

[Jeff Singleton]

Interesting.

Well…the 210 ports listed in my original email all got installed and marked
active without issue. The only problems were that 16 core cpu's don't exist
yet, and I can't afford a terabyte of DDR3 ram…so the compiling time took
all day.

--
Jeff

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> > I just wanted to see if we could bump this reinstall method up to a more
> > stable status.
> >
> > I can and do confirm that under MacPorts 2.0.4, Xcode 4.3 (with
> persistent
> > License Agreement), and +universal variant enabled…the restore ports TCL
> > script, and steps provided on the Migration Info website
> > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration does work flawlessly.
>
> It's pretty stable as far as it goes, yes. But it does come with some
> caveats. Off the top of my head:
>
>  * It does not handle conflicting ports gracefully at all, it just fails
> when it comes across them. (You can have conflicting ports installed at
> the same time, just not active.)
>  * Probably an even bigger one is that it doesn't restore the
> requested/unrequested status of the ports. This information isn't
> actually present in the 'port -v installed' output. I think everything
> ends up marked as requested.
>
> - Josh
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