Quick Question

[James Secan]

Should have mentioned I’ve already done that as my final fall-back, but I’d rather be able to get back to exactly where I was vis-a-vis MacPorts if I step on something I shouldn’t have.

Jim
Seattle, WA

> On May 7, 2022, at 11:00 AM, chilli.namesake at gmail.com wrote:
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> May want to save a copy of output of
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> port list requested
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> to make it easy to restore if it all goes South. When I'm migrating, I take that list and turn it into an install script.
> 
>> On May 7, 2022, at 13:55, Jim Secan <james.secan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I’m about to embark on a major mucking-out of my MacPorts installation on an El Capitan system.  I believe that if I make a copy of /opt/local that gives me everything I need to recover if I find myself with a non-working setup after this process.  Is that right, or are there other directories I should backup as well?
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>> Jim
>> Seattle, WA
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