On the other hand I recently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5 and my machine was
horribly unstable until I blew away the MacPorts install. I'm not sure
why this was, and I didn't have the time or gumption to run a lot of
diagnostics, so it could well be that something less drastic would have
sufficed.
Which I guess really means that it works OK when it works, except for when
it doesn't...
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Tim Visher wrote:
Hi Darren,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Darren Weber<[email protected]> wrote:
What happens to a MacPorts installation when we install a distribution
upgrade to OSX, say Leopard to Snow Leopard? Do we need to backup the
MacPorts installation, or is the ${prefix} path immune to the upgrade? What
about startup items (launchd or anything that violates the mtree)?
I can't be sure technically but I've upgraded OS X for every release
since MacPorts came out (Back when it was called DarwinPorts. Jaguar?)
and I've never had to reinstall it. So, anecdotally I think you're
safe. If you care very deeply you should of course back it up just in
case.
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