Changes between Version 62 and Version 63 of Migration

Timestamp:

Oct 31, 2013, 1:40:31 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

jmroot (Joshua Root)

Comment:

revert

Migration

@@ -18 +18 @@
 ==== OS X 10.9 Mavericks ====
 
-MacPorts require Xcode, which is available for free on the Mac App Store.
-{{{
-sudo xcode-select --install
-sudo xcodebuild -license
-}}}
+For minimum support of MacPorts, you need the Command Line Tools, which can be installed using `xcode-select --install`. If you are installing MacPorts from source, you will also want to run `sudo xcodebuild -license`. Note that some ports will require a full Xcode installation, which is available for free on the Mac App Store.
+
 === Reinstall MacPorts ===
 
@@ -33 +30 @@
 Several other settings in macports.conf have changed their defaults over the years. Take a moment to compare each line of your macports.conf with the corresponding line in macports.conf.default in the same directory. Unless you know a reason why a line your settings file should be different from the defaults, adopt the line from the defaults file.
 
-{{{
-cp /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.default /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf
-}}}
-
-
 === Reinstall ports === #ports
 
@@ -44 +36 @@
  1. Save the list of installed ports:
 {{{
-port -qv installed > my_installed_ports.txt
-port list requested | perl -pe 's/ .*//g' | sort -u > my_requested_ports.txt
+port -qv installed > myports.txt
 }}}
  2. Uninstall all installed ports:
@@ -55 +46 @@
 sudo port clean all
 }}}
- 4. Install your old ports:
+ 4. Browse `myports.txt` and install the ports that you actually want to use (as opposed to those that are only needed as dependencies) one by one, remembering to specify the appropriate variants:
 {{{
-sudo port install $(cat my_requested_ports.txt | perl -pe 's/\n/ /g')
+sudo port install portname +variant1 +variant2 …
 }}}
+Note that if you have specified variants which are not the default, you may need to install ports in an order other than the alphabetical order recorded in `myports.txt`.
 
 ==== Automatically reinstall ports ==== #automatic
 
-A script has been written to automate Step 4 above more accurately, though it has some caveats. If it fails, you will just have to do it manually. (But see workaround for conflicting ports below.)
+A script has been written to automate Step 4 above, though it has some caveats. If it fails, you will just have to do it manually. (But see workaround for conflicting ports below.)
 
 To use it, you will first need to run steps 1-3 as described above. Then:
@@ -69 +61 @@
 curl -O https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl
 chmod +x restore_ports.tcl
-sudo ./restore_ports.tcl my_installed_ports.txt
+sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt
 }}}