On 2021-05-10 at 11:43:56 UTC-0400 (Mon, 10 May 2021 17:43:56 +0200)
Bjarne D Mathiesen <macint...@mathiesen.info>
is rumored to have said:
Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On May 9, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Gerben Wierda via macports-users
<macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:
Anyway, the hard lesson was: reclaim is not ’safe’. I thought,
reclaim would only remove inactive installs, but it removed active
ones as well.
It is not possible for me to retrace what went wrong exactly, sadly.
The first thing reclaim does is this:
---> Checking for unnecessary unrequested ports
Unrequested ports without requested dependents found:
If you (like me) have an MacPorts install that pre-dates the
requested flag, you'll have a bunch of ports in that list that you
don't actually want uninstalled. For reclaim to work best, you need
to do `port setrequested` on the ports you want to always keep - then
the list of ports you see there will be stuff that got installed that
you no longer need. (You can also mark things 'unrequested', see the
port manpage - so you can fix things up if you mistakenly mark
something requested that you don't want).
Or, you can just hit 'n' for the first prompt.
so, doing something like this :
port -q installed \
Better:
port -q installed active \
Since the 'installed' pseudo-port includes deactivated ports, which are
left by default after upgrades.
| awk '{print $1}' \
| xargs -n1 port setrequested
before the first use of 'port reclaim' would be advisable
I (luckily) didn't get burned, but I deemed 'port reclaim' to be
unsafe
in automatic update scripts. In my case eg git was set up for reclaim.
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