advice for wipe and reinstall

[Jeremy Lavergne]

Port setrequesred $portname to set a package as requested.

Most packages check for a confug rather than clobbering files. If you haven't had a problem during any upgrades then you are safe to restore prior to installing packages.

On March 21, 2014 5:24:27 PM EDT, Terry Barnum <terry at dop.com> wrote:
>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
>digital OutPost
>http://www.dop.com