Migration question and binary question
Jerry
lanceboyle at qwest.net
Thu May 8 14:35:27 PDT 2014
I just upgraded my OS to 10.9 from 10.8 and am following the instructions for migrating MacPorts at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration.
I am considering using the "Automatically reinstall ports" suggestion whereby a script is downloaded which script then works with a previously saved myports.txt. If I do this, will the script install old versions of ports which had not been active? I'm thinking that this might be a good time to do some decrufting and I would like to consider these old inactive versions as mostly cruft and not reinstall them.
Also, I've been confused about binary versions--are there binary versions of some ports and if so I would like to install them preferentially over building from source. How do I discover the presence of a binary port and how do I install it?
Thanks as always,
Jerry
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