On 2015-10-04 12:25, William H. Magill wrote: > As with the “success” above, the answer appears to be with the > Migration Instructions. The problem is that the visual queues given > by the “command indent and boxing” are much more emphatic than the > numbered items. i.e. the Eye overrides RTFM.
Thank you for your input. I tried to improve the Migration wiki page. Please check again: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration > Step one needs to be — download and install the version of MacPorts > appropriate to the new release found at the top of the QuickStart > page, NOT “port -qv”! > > Or put another way, the instructions on the QuickStart page and the > Migration page need to be better integrated. Step 2 in the Migration > Procedure is the key. > > Maybe wording like: > > "Reinstall MacPorts base. After updating the development tools, > install the base MacPorts system for your new platform, either from > the appropriate installer (download it from the QuickStart section) > or from source.” Users going to the Migration page should already be familiar with MacPorts itself as they used it on the previous release of OS X. I don't think they need the QuickStart anymore. > Similarly, the numbering of the Migration Guide is somewhat > confusing. > > 2.a should probably be moved to 3.a and the rest of 3 renumbered > accordingly. I don't understand that. 2a was the macports.conf update, which is closer to updating MacPorts base than reinstalling ports. I left this at step 2. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users