Hi,
The following is the Migration procedure as listed in Macport website.
1) For 1. below , should I use Xcode15 or older version?
2) Does the following procedure work? Is there anyone who has
successfully migrated Macport to Sonoma?
3) How long will this migration procedure take?
4) I have upgraded to Sonoma OS. But why my present ports still work?
Thanks
Tao
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Migration procedure
1. *Install the latest version of Xcode and the Xcode command-line
tools*<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#xcode>
Install the latest version of Xcode
<https://guide.macports.org/#installing.xcode> that is compatible
with your OS. Open the Xcode application once after installation and
follow any prompts.
Install the same version of the command line tools. (Run
|xcode-select --install|). Recent versions of macOS have a bug that
prevents them from automatically updating the command line tools, so
if the preceding command says they're already installed, they may
not be up to date and you may need to update manually by following
the instructions in ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt
<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt>.
2. *Reinstall MacPorts base
system*<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#base>
To reinstall, simply install the base MacPorts system
<https://www.macports.org/install.php> for your new platform. If
there is no macOS Installer package available for your new OS
version, you can install from source.
3. *Update your macports.conf (if not
default)*<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#config>
If your |macports.conf| (typically at
|/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf|) contains uncommented
settings for |universal_archs| or |build_arch|, you will likely want
to update them, since newer OS versions may support different CPU
architectures. Default values are fine for most users, so unless you
know you need something different, just comment out these two lines.
Several other settings in |macports.conf| have changed their
defaults over the years. Take a moment to compare each line of your
|macports.conf| with the corresponding line in
|macports.conf.default| in the same directory. Unless you know a
reason why a line in your settings file should be different from the
defaults, adopt the line from the defaults file.
3. *Reinstall your ports*<https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#ports>
1. Save the list of installed ports:
port -qv installed > myports.txt
2. Save the list of requested ports:
port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq > requested.txt
3. Uninstall all installed ports:
sudo port -f uninstall installed
4. Run a regular clear out of your installation:
sudo port reclaim
5. Download and execute the restore_ports script
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/macports/macports-contrib/master/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl>.
(If you installed MacPorts from source and used a custom prefix,
then you'll need to use the -p option when you run
restore_ports.tcl; see |./restore_ports.tcl -h|.)
curl --location
--remote-namehttps://github.com/macports/macports-contrib/raw/master/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl
chmod +x restore_ports.tcl
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine restore_ports.tcl
sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt
Note: ports that are not available on your new platform will be
skipped, with only a warning message.
6. Restore requested status: If you saved the list of requested
ports, you can now restore the requested flags for your newly
installed ports to their former states.
sudo port unsetrequested installed
xargs sudo port setrequested < requested.txt
Warning: if a port in |requested.txt| was /not/ installed in the
previous step, the iterative |setrequested| will terminate,
leaving some ports still marked as not-requested. Edit
|requested.txt| to remove any ports that were not installed and
repeat this step. Double-check your desired ports are set as
requested with |port echo requested|.
