On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Ralf Graf wrote:
I'm in the process of moving my stuff from my good old G4-Powerbook to an all shiny new MacBook Pro. I wonder wether it's possible to take over my installed ports from the Powerbook to the MacBook Pro. Simply copying /opt/local shouldn't work, because the installed ones are all PPC-Binaries.
Is there a way of rebuilding the same list of ports without the need to hack every port that "port installed" listed on the old machine into a terminal on the new machine?
I may sound confusing, to make clear what I'm searching for, something like:
Old machine: ports installed > list_of_ports.txt New machine: ports install < list_of_ports.txt
Unfortunately, no. You can, however, write a fairly simple script to get a list of all ports and variants in a form that you can send to port. There are a few caveats, however - ports that are outdated, you'll end up installing the latest. Inactive ports will cause a problem, because I know of no way to install a port without activating it. Also, ports which have dependencies may also be a problem, because if you have the dependencies installed with specific variants, it's non-trivial to detect this and ensure those dependencies are installed with those variants before the dependent port. That said, this should work to simply install all ports and their variants on the new machine: ## old machine # this line will skip inactive ports port installed | sed -nE -e '/^ .*\(active\)$/{s/^ //;s/@[-a-zA- Z0-9_.]+//;s/ \(active\)$//;p;}' > ports.txt # use this one instead if you want to install all ports, even inactive ones #port installed | sed -nE -e '/^ $/{s///;s/@[-a-zA-Z0-9_.]+//;s/ \ (active\)$//;p;}' > ports.txt ## you may want to peruse the ports.txt list to ensure dependencies with custom variants ## are listed above any dependent ports ## new machine cat ports.txt | xargs -L 1 port install HTH, Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com