<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On May 8, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jerry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lanceboyle@qwest.net" target="_blank">lanceboyle@qwest.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just upgraded my OS to 10.9 from 10.8 and am following the instructions for migrating MacPorts at <a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration" target="_blank">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration</a>.<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Thanks, Brandon.<br><div><br></div>I redirected this output to .txt files. Do you have a quick way (script) to use these echoed files during reinstallation?<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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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?<br>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>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.<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I ran these through FileMerge which indicated 30 differences. But all the differences were in comments (and they were very large differences). But all of the "working" lines are the same.</div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, macports.conf.default has a creation and modification date of October 25, 2013, while macports.conf has both dates April 2, 2012. Note that at this stage I have run the .pkg installer according to <a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration</a> and links therefrom.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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