Mojave and Migration

Michael Newman mgnewman at mac.com
Tue Oct 23 08:30:30 UTC 2018



> On Oct 23, 2018, at 15:09, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> Is there any way to find our without manually checking each and every port in myports.txt?
> 
> Sure, get a list of only the port names you want to know about. For example you could do that using:
> 
> awk '{print $1}' myports.txt
> 
> Then ask MacPorts which of them aren't installed. For example:
> 
> port echo not installed and \( ImageMagick MPlayer \)
> 
> Or:
> 
> port echo not installed and \( $(awk '{print $1}' myports.txt) \)

Thank you. Unfortunately, the list is huge:

MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ port echo not installed and \( $(awk '{print $1}' myports.txt) \) | wc -l
     218

And includes things like curl, wget, gzip and others.

Makes me thing something went seriously wrong with restore_ports.tcl.


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