On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > I just upgraded my OS to 10.9 from 10.8 and am following the instructions > for migrating MacPorts at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration. > > I am considering using the "Automatically reinstall ports" suggestion > whereby a script is downloaded which script then works with a previously > saved myports.txt. If I do this, will the script install old versions of > ports which had not been active? I'm thinking that this might be a good > time to do some decrufting and I would like to consider these old inactive > versions as mostly cruft and not reinstall them. >
I make a list of active and requested ports (port echo active and requested) and just reinstall those; it'll pull in what it needs automatically, and because I do it that way I keep the requested flags. > Also, I've been confused about binary versions--are there binary versions > of some ports and if so I would like to install them preferentially over > building from source. How do I discover the presence of a binary port and > how do I install it? > That happens by default, assuming you have not changed /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf; you may want to review yours against /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.default to see what additions or changes may be there. A port will be installed from a binary archive if (a) we have a buildbot for it [so for example not for Leopard/10.5], (b) the license is compatible with binary distribution, and (c) you are using default variants. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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