Interesting. Well…the 210 ports listed in my original email all got installed and marked active without issue. The only problems were that 16 core cpu's don't exist yet, and I can't afford a terabyte of DDR3 ram…so the compiling time took all day.
-- Jeff On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > I just wanted to see if we could bump this reinstall method up to a more > > stable status. > > > > I can and do confirm that under MacPorts 2.0.4, Xcode 4.3 (with > persistent > > License Agreement), and +universal variant enabled…the restore ports TCL > > script, and steps provided on the Migration Info website > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration does work flawlessly. > > It's pretty stable as far as it goes, yes. But it does come with some > caveats. Off the top of my head: > > * It does not handle conflicting ports gracefully at all, it just fails > when it comes across them. (You can have conflicting ports installed at > the same time, just not active.) > * Probably an even bigger one is that it doesn't restore the > requested/unrequested status of the ports. This information isn't > actually present in the 'port -v installed' output. I think everything > ends up marked as requested. > > - Josh > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >
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