Macports selfupdates

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 15, 2008, at 21:04, mark brethen wrote:

> I'm currently at v1.440 of Macports, running OS 10.3.9. I will soon be
> updating the Mac OS to 10.4.11. Anything I should know about Macports
> before I install the new OS?

Indeed there is some stuff you should know!

Ports installed on one major version of Mac OS X won't necessarily  
work right on a different major version of Mac OS X. So my  
recommendation is really to make a note of which ports you've  
installed (see "port installed"), uninstall MacPorts, upgrade your  
OS, then reinstall MacPorts and the ports you want. Be sure to keep  
any config files you modified or any databases or web pages or other  
data that may be in your old MacPorts installation. You should probably:

rename /opt/local to /opt/local-10.3
rename /Applications/MacPorts to /Applications/MacPorts-10.3
rename /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 to /Library/Tcl/macports1.0-10.3

Then update your OS to 10.4. (It's not a problem if you update your  
OS first, then rename those items.) In the Mac OS X installer, make  
sure you check the box for installing X11.

Then install Xcode 2.5. You can't use the Xcode 1.x that you were  
using from Mac OS X 10.3.9, and you shouldn't use Xcode older than  
2.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.x. If your Mac OS X DVD comes with an older  
version of Xcode 2, download Xcode 2.5 from http:// 
developer.apple.com and use that. When you install Xcode, make sure  
the box for the X11 SDK is checked.

Then install the MacPorts 1.6.0 disk image for Mac OS X 10.4.

Then you can install your ports again.

Then you can move over any data or config files from /opt/local-10.3