Yosemite upgrade

[Jean-François Gobin]

Yes, I saw it. Thanks anyway for pointing it to me.

I think this should be proposed as a command-line option, something like
"port wishlist" which would save a ton of time to everybody. I'll look into
developing this (possibly ... as a port!)

J.

2014-10-19 15:27 GMT-04:00 Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster at gmail.com>:

> Have you checked out the macports migration page? There's a script you
> might be interested in:
>
>
>    1. Download and execute the restore_ports script. (If you installed
>    MacPorts from source and put its Tcl package somewhere other than
>    /Library/Tcl, then you'll need to use the -t option when you run
>    restore_ports.tcl; see ./restore_ports.tcl -h.)
>
>    curl -O https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl
>    chmod +x restore_ports.tcl
>    sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Jean-François Gobin <jeanfgobin at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Is there a command line switch for "port" that would dump an
>> "install/select" script? For example, that would dump something like
>>
>> port install python27
>>> port install python34
>>> port select python --set python34
>>> port install octave
>>> port install gcc48
>>> port select gcc --set gcc48
>>
>>
>> That can be used to uninstall everything/reinstall everything or even
>> port a list of ports to another machine.
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> 2014-10-19 14:47 GMT-04:00 Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org>:
>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Supported or not...this way seemed to work for a majority of my ports
>>> and I was wondering whether nuking all 459 of my ports for the sake of a
>>> few that don't work seems like an inefficient solution. It seems there are
>>> other ways to approach this problem...
>>>
>>> Didn't you say (or intimate) that you upgraded all your ports? That
>>> means you've trashed and recompiled them all anyway, so you're not really
>>> saving any time.
>>>
>>> There are undoubtedly other ways to go about this, but starting from
>>> scratch is the most reliable and usually works out best for everyone
>>> involved.
>>>
>>> vq
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>>
>>
>>
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