Migration question and binary question

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri May 9 07:03:30 PDT 2014


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> Handling variants of dependencies correctly is precisely why
> restore_ports.tcl exists. The lack of automatic preservation of the
> requested flag is an annoyance, certainly, but you can get around it by
> running this at the same time you generate myports.txt:
>
> port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > requested.txt
>
> and this after you've run restore_ports.tcl and 'port unsetrequested
> installed':
>
> < requested.txt xargs port setrequested
>

Isn't this backwards? That is, all ports would show as requested and you
need to set unrequested the ports not in the original requested list?

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