Anyone? Just looking to know the significance of ~/.macports -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
On Jan 3, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Scott Haneda wrote: > Hello, I updated to Snow Leopard today. I have installed the new Dev Tools, > X11 which was on the Snow installer, MacPorts, and am now installing my ports > clean and new. > > I saved a backup of /opt/local so I have all my user made files to move into > place when I get all the ports working. > > My case was that I did a clean OS install, so I did a clean MacPorts install. > All I have done so far is install mysql5 server version. > > Do I need to make any changes to sources.conf or similar files? > > I did run the below command just for the heck of it, and before that ran the > selfupdate command and got a little love from the update that came out the > other day. > `sudo port clean --work --archive all` > > Are there any other changes I need to consider? > > When I updated, I noticed there was ~/.macports which has a good deal of > stuff in it, all seemingly related to ports I was at one time or another > working on. I went ahead and cp'd it over from a backup into my new clean > isntall. Is there a way to clean that out, or can I just delete it and let > it make itself new as needed? > > I also took over ~/.profile and all other ~/. files for my PATH and other > settings to be correct. I did this before I installed MacPorts. It all > looks ok, but wanted to ask to make sure there is nothing I did too out of > the ordinary. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
