Upgrading to Lion - having problems with migration instructions

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Sat Jul 23 22:43:37 PDT 2011


On Jul 23, 2011, at 17:57, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Jul 23, 2011, at 18:54, Scott Webster wrote:
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>> So the migration instructions don't apply to Lion, right?
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> Not all ports specify all dependencies correctly, especially on some of the small but important utilities like grep, sed, awk. So just relying on MacPorts to rebuild everything in the right order may not work, and in that case you can either fiddle with it and try to rebuild things manually yourself until it works, or you can follow the migration instructions.

Yeah, but if you're going from SL to Lion, those utilities will still *work* even if they weren't upgraded in the right order ... still, if you run into an issue, please report it.



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