advice for wipe and reinstall

[Terry Barnum]

Thank you Jeremy.

'port echo requested' doesn't return all the ports I've explicitly requested. Notably, postfix is missing. Is there a way to refresh/recreate this requested list?

/opt/local/etc is where I thought port configurations would live but wasn't sure. Do you think it would be best after reformatting and installing 10.8 to install macports, then copy /opt/local/etc from backups, then reinstall the ports?

-Terry

On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

> I’d expect all configuration to be available in /opt/local/etc/
> 
> The list of packages is available either with `port echo requested` or `port echo installed`, depending on your intention of installing just what you wanted or making sure everything is back.
> 
> The output of those `port echo …` commands can be used to tell macports what to install:
> port install name1 @vers+variant name2 @vers+variant …
> 
> On Mar 21, 2014, at 16:32, Terry Barnum <terry at dop.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've got a MacPro3,1 that after updating from 10.6 to 10.7 has intermittently been having its builtin Gb network interface go deaf. Nothing short of a reboot can bring it back. I began suspecting hardware and added a SmallTree NIC with their driver thinking that would solve it, but after two days the machine went deaf again.
>> 
>> So now I'm thinking that a reformat and clean install of 10.8 and all macports might be the solution. This is an active mailserver with many packages installed with macports (postfix, dovecot, antispam, dspam, sieve, etc.) and I don't want to lose any of their configurations. I have nightly CCC and hourly Timemachine backups.
>> 
>> What's the recommended way to reinstall previously installed ports (in 10.7) with all previous configuration onto a fresh system running 10.8?
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> 

Terry Barnum
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