Migration of MacPorts installation: Very basic questions

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Sep 26 15:08:48 PDT 2016


On 09/26/2016 11:49 PM, Eneko Gotzon wrote:
> In the /Download and execute the restore_ports script/ section (Migration
> procedure of a MacPorts installation
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#Migrationprocedure>), please, how many
> commands are in the provided expression, three?
> 
>  1. curl -O
>     https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl
>  2. chmod +x restore_ports.tcl
>  3. sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt
> 
> The same about /Restoring the requested status;/ I believe they are two
> commands; I'm right?
> 
>  1. sudo port unsetrequested installed
>  2. xargs sudo port setrequested < requested.txt
> 
> Thank you very much and, again, excuse me.

Yes, your assumptions are correct.

Should we maybe put them in separate boxes to make this more clear?

Rainer


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