advice for wipe and reinstall

2014-03-21 Thread Terry Barnum
I've got a MacPro3,1 that after updating from 10.6 to 10.7 has intermittently been having its builtin Gb network interface go deaf. Nothing short of a reboot can bring it back. I began suspecting hardware and added a SmallTree NIC with their driver thinking that would solve it, but after two

Re: advice for wipe and reinstall

2014-03-21 Thread Eric Gallager
See the Migration page on the wiki: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Terry Barnum te...@dop.com wrote: I've got a MacPro3,1 that after updating from 10.6 to 10.7 has intermittently been having its builtin Gb network interface go deaf. Nothing short

Re: advice for wipe and reinstall

2014-03-21 Thread Terry Barnum
Thanks Eric. I should've mentioned that I'm familiar with the Migration page. As far as I can tell its instructions are for an update of the OS with /opt/local still in place, not a reformatted, wiped and clean install. What's the recommended way to reinstall previously installed ports (in

Re: advice for wipe and reinstall

2014-03-21 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
Port setrequesred $portname to set a package as requested. Most packages check for a confug rather than clobbering files. If you haven't had a problem during any upgrades then you are safe to restore prior to installing packages. On March 21, 2014 5:24:27 PM EDT, Terry Barnum te...@dop.com

Re: advice for wipe and reinstall

2014-03-21 Thread Terry Barnum
Perfect. Thanks Jeremy. -Terry On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: Port setrequesred $portname to set a package as requested. Most packages check for a confug rather than clobbering files. If you haven't had a problem during any upgrades then you