Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Mar 1 23:10:57 UTC 2017


> On Mar 1, 2017, at 17:09, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning on following the Migration instructions in the wiki. (I was planning on rebuilding gmp, since I know it builds for a specific processor.) I ran into a problem that I haven't heard discussed before and I don't see addressed in the Migration instructions.
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> Frankly, I'd consider this an example of why trying to shortcut around the Migration instructions is a bad idea.

The migration instructions are for migrating from one CPU arch to another, or from one macOS version to another. Neither applies here.



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