On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:17:42PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2021, at 21:26, Eric Gallager wrote: > > > With git at least, there's a built-in command (`git bisect`) to assist > > with cases like this; would it be possible to add a similar feature to > > the restore_ports.tcl script? > > That seems out of scope for what the script is meant to do. > > It might be more productive for us to change the instructions to > recommend that users install only the ports they requested, rather > than all previously installed ports. That's what I ended up doing recently on 10.6 when trying to update macports after a very long period with no updates. I think that the existing instructions make a lot of sense when moving from one version of macOS to another (with macports up-to-date to start with), because the versions of all the ports and their dependencies wouldn't have changed, but if the versions of installed ports no longer exist, or if the dependencies have changed a lot since the last update, then just installing the requested ports, and letting the current dependencies sort themselves out, is a good approach. cheers, raf
