Requested Ports

[Joshua Root]

Michael Newman wrote:

> I did what Arno suggested (thank you) and I now have a requested.txt file that, as far as I can tell, is a good representation of both:
>
> • The ports I migrated to this machine when I first set it up last October.
> • The ports that I later installed.
>
> What I still don’t understand is what happened to the ports that I either migrated or installed?
>
> Many of them simply disappeared after I upgraded to Sequoia and used the new MacPorts migration procedure.
>
> Fifteen:desktop mnewman$ xargs -n1 sudo port setrequested < old_requested.txt
> Password:
> Error: exiftool is not installed
> Error: jshon is not installed
> Error: lynx is not installed
> Error: mailutils is not installed
> Error: msmtp is not installed
> Error: nano is not installed
> Error: nbsmtp is not installed
> Error: tree is not installed
>
> (old_requested.txt is the file I used to migrate to the new machine and which I recovered from TimeMachine.)
>
> Where did they all go?

I don't know exactly what you did, but assuming you ran 'port migrate' 
at some point in the process and didn't delete the snapshot afterwards, 
you can compare the snapshot with your installation's current state by 
finding the snapshot ID with 'port snapshot --list' and then running 
'port snapshot --diff <ID> --all' where <ID> is the appropriate ID number.

Migration will only restore requested ports and their dependencies by 
default (and there should have been a message telling you about any 
ports that would not be restored, and a prompt asking if you want to 
continue), so it's possible you will find that some of the ports you 
want were not marked as requested when the snapshot was created. If 
that's the case, you can run 'sudo port restore --last --all' to restore 
all of the ports in the snapshot including unrequested ones.

- Josh