Migration question and binary question

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jerry <lanceboyle at qwest.net> wrote:

> I just upgraded my OS to 10.9 from 10.8 and am following the instructions
> for migrating MacPorts at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration.
>
> I am considering using the "Automatically reinstall ports" suggestion
> whereby a script is downloaded which script then works with a previously
> saved myports.txt. If I do this, will the script install old versions of
> ports which had not been active? I'm thinking that this might be a good
> time to do some decrufting and I would like to consider these old inactive
> versions as mostly cruft and not reinstall them.
>

I make a list of active and requested ports (port echo active and
requested) and just reinstall those; it'll pull in what it needs
automatically, and because I do it that way I keep the requested flags.


> Also, I've been confused about binary versions--are there binary versions
> of some ports and if so I would like to install them preferentially over
> building from source. How do I discover the presence of a binary port and
> how do I install it?
>

That happens by default, assuming you have not changed
/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf; you may want to review yours against
/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.default to see what additions or
changes may be there. A port will be installed from a binary archive if (a)
we have a buildbot for it [so for example not for Leopard/10.5], (b) the
license is compatible with binary distribution, and (c) you are using
default variants.

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