Yosemite upgrade

Dominik Reichardt domiman at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 10:26:34 PDT 2014


I've been using MacPorts since 10.6 abd with each new OSX it seemed to me less painful nuking MacPorts and running some port installs over night, than mucking endlessly with several ports, wasting time etc...
So... Nuke now!

Dom


> Am 19.10.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster at gmail.com>:
> 
> I'll give it a day or two...if no solution presents itself I'll do the nuclear option and start over.
> 
>> On Sunday, October 19, 2014, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> before I do a clean wipe of all my macports and spend the next 10 hours or so downloading, configuring, building and reinstalling 459 separate ports. There may be a simpler solution.
>> 
>> If there were one, someone would have found it by now. Migration tells you to remove and reinstall for a reason.
>> 
>> (And ultimately that reason is Apple changing things as it sees fit, regardless of the effect on downstream folks like MacPorts and Homebrew. The latter is good at ignoring those reasons and then causing incomprehensible problems down the road... although they're getting better about it, slowly, having repeatedly had to learn the hard way why MacPorts does things in ways they consider "stupid".)
>> 
>> -- 
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