On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) < [email protected]> wrote:
> This reminds me of something I’ve been wondering about. Why do the > migration instructions recommend explicitly reinstalling all previously > installed ports, and then optionally marking the previously requested ports > as “requested”? Isn’t it simpler to explicitly reinstall only the > previously requested ports, and let macports figure out the dependencies? > That way, if the dependencies have changed you only are reinstalling the > necessary ports and there’s no need to fiddle with the requested status > afterwards. That will usually work --- but not always. Often this is because of buggy dependencies in Portfiles; the only reliable way to catch them is to always build in trace mode, but that's painfully slow. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
