No problems. I understand your concerns. 
It was worth asking anyways. :-) 

-Manav

> On Jul 6, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jul 5, 2018, at 07:35, Manav Bhatia wrote:
> 
>> What I had in mind was to make macports believe that it is still running on 
>> 10.13, so that it could use the precompiled binaries already available on 
>> the servers. 
>> 
>> MacPorts must have a way to figure out which OS version it is running on. If 
>> there is a script that it uses for this, can’t I make a simple modification 
>> to accomplish this? 
>> 
>> Of course, this will be on my own risk, but I think this is worth a try. 
>> 
>> I would appreciate any insights on this. 
> 
> I understand what you're suggesting, but I don't want to help you do that. 
> MacPorts deliberately makes you rebuild ports when you upgrade to a new OS, 
> to prevent problems. See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration. I don't 
> want to help you circumvent that. If you encounter a problem with MacPorts on 
> the new OS, I want you to be able to report it to us so that we can 
> investigate and hopefully fix it. I don't want us to have the uncertainty of 
> wondering if the problem you're encountering is because you're using ports 
> built for the wrong OS version.

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