Quick Question

[James Secan]

Thanks, I’ll check those other items out.

Jim
Seattle, WA

> On May 7, 2022, at 11:24 AM, chilli.namesake at gmail.com wrote:
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> Sorry I did not address your question. Though I've never tried that method, my understanding is that everything MacPorts is in /opt/local owned by root:wheel and 755, so I have always assumed, for at least a decade now, that what you intend should just work, because I've had those thoughts before as well, I just prefer to watch code build for days rather than copy a folder for a few minutes.
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> I always backup macports.conf separately, along with .bash_profile (not really part of MacPorts but sourcing it keeps $PATHs how I want them).
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> Also, for the system proper, I install everything that is not required to be installed in /Applications into ~/Applications, so when migrating I just copy over my user folder and then nearly all my applications are already installed.
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> Which reminds me, you may have some MacPorts application builds in /Applications/MacPorts
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>> On May 7, 2022, at 14:10, James Secan <james.secan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> May want to save a copy of output of
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>>> port list requested
>>> 
>>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> Seattle, WA
>>>> 
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