Quick Question

[Richard L. Hamilton]

/opt/local and /Applications/MacPorts accounts for most, but by no means all of the files installed.

Looking through the output of the command

port contents installed | egrep -v '^Port.*contains:$|^ */opt/local/|^ */Applications/MacPorts/' | sort > macports_files_misc.txt

I see that SOME of the files in

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

are part of ports (those are locations are used by various software) as well as probably all of

/Library/TeX/Distributions/.FactoryDefaults/MacPorts-TeXLive
/Library/TeX/Distributions/MacPorts-TeXLive.texdist


You should perhaps run the above command yourself and examine the resulting file; there may be other odd places used by ports you have installed and I don't.


> On May 7, 2022, at 14:28, James Secan <james.secan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> I always backup macports.conf separately, along with .bash_profile (not really part of MacPorts but sourcing it keeps $PATHs how I want them).
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Which reminds me, you may have some MacPorts application builds in /Applications/MacPorts
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 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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