On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:34, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> so I find this strange: seemingly everything is just fine (macports user and
> its home dir exists etc.) but I get that "cannot change owner: no macports
> user" warning nonetheless. so this looks like OSX had not a consistent view
> of the state of affairs across different utilities at that point? notably
> `dscl' knowing that user is not sufficient? what, then, is the
> reliable/correct way to decide whether a user account "really" exists? but
> whatever ...
I'm sorry, I don't know and I can't completely explain what you've observed.
> understood. will try to recall the procedure in due time when doing another
> migration to a new machine...
No need to recall anything since it's documented in
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration. That document is geared toward
migrating from one OS version or architecture to another, but it could be
enhanced to address the case of migrating from one machine to another while
keeping the same OS version and architecture. If you'd like to make those
enhancements feel free; anyone can edit the wiki.
