Thanks, again. Yes, my old Mac Pro is old enough to have a Firewire port, but 
of course my new computer (iMac 5K) does not. I would have to get a Firewire to 
Thunderbolt cable. Anyway, I was able to run my old computer to extract the 
installed and requested port list, move the files with a USB stick, and do the 
reinstallation without problems (except for virtualbox that does not yet run on 
Yosemite) late yesterday.

++Eric

From: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM
To: Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Eric Fielding 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: port migration

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You could boot the old computer to "target disk mode", attach it to the new 
computer with a firewire cable and execute 
"/Volumes/<volume_name>/opt/local/bin/port installed".

That's assuming it's old *enough*. :)

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