Mojave and Migration

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Oct 23 08:31:47 UTC 2018


On Oct 23, 2018, at 03:30, Michael Newman wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 15:09, Ryan Schmidt 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.

Ok, pick one, try to install it, see what happens. If it fails, show us what the error was.




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