Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Scott C. Kennedy
Well, I choose to compile my variants first, like +ipv6, so that any dependancies don't get hosed. As in, if you need to install curl +ipv6 but, another port needs curl then if you don't compile the variant first, then you will compile the non-ipv6 version to satisfy the dependancy and then have

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:32, Darren Weber wrote: I have attended WWDC2009, where I got access to a developer version of Snow Leopard (and SL server) and the latest Xcode tools bundled with the SDK for iPhone 3.0. If I can learn how to create a dual-boot system (so I can hang onto everything

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-17 Thread Artie Ziff
Scott C. Kennedy wrote: You will lose your variants, if you made any custom builds. I keep a shell script with the variants and ports that I use up to date, plus I keep and compare the port installed output from before and after to ensure I didn't miss anything. How is that script

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 15, 2009, at 17:05, Darren Weber wrote: MacPorts doesn't include a command to help you rebuild an entire installation like this. This is unfortunate and makes it a rather involved process. But since upgrading to a new major OS version is a task users don't perform often, I don't

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.orgwrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 17:07, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 13:36, Darren Weber wrote: What's the recommended series of command lines for that? Here's what I did: cd /opt/local/var/macports/software

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, vincent habchi vi...@macports.org wrote: Le 9 juin 09 à 14:32, Kurt Hillig a écrit : On the other hand I recently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5 and my machine was horribly unstable until I blew away the MacPorts install. I'm not sure why this was, and I didn't

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Visher
Hi Darren, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Darren Weberdwe...@macports.org wrote: What happens to a MacPorts installation when we install a distribution upgrade to OSX, say Leopard to Snow Leopard? Do we need to backup the MacPorts installation, or is the ${prefix} path immune to the upgrade?

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread vincent habchi
Le 9 juin 09 à 14:32, Kurt Hillig a écrit : On the other hand I recently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5 and my machine was horribly unstable until I blew away the MacPorts install. I'm not sure why this was, and I didn't have the time or gumption to run a lot of diagnostics, so it could well

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Joshua Root
On 2009-6-9 22:15, Tim Visher wrote: Hi Darren, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Darren Weberdwe...@macports.org wrote: What happens to a MacPorts installation when we install a distribution upgrade to OSX, say Leopard to Snow Leopard? Do we need to backup the MacPorts installation, or is

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Darren Weber
What's the recommended series of command lines for that? Thanks! Darren On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: On 2009-6-9 22:15, Tim Visher wrote: Hi Darren, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Darren Weberdwe...@macports.org wrote: What happens to a MacPorts

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
Here's what I did: cd /opt/local/var/macports/software /bin/ls -1d * ~/todo.mp cd sudo mv /opt/local /var/tmp/old_macports cd src/macports/trunk/base ./configure make sudo make install for f in $(cat todo.mp ); do [[ -d /opt/local/var/macports/software/ $f ]] || sudo port -v install $f; done

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Scott C. Kennedy
You will lose your variants, if you made any custom builds. I keep a shell script with the variants and ports that I use up to date, plus I keep and compare the port installed output from before and after to ensure I didn't miss anything. Scott Jeremy Huddleston wrote: Here's what I did: cd

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 9, 2009, at 17:07, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 13:36, Darren Weber wrote: What's the recommended series of command lines for that? Here's what I did: cd /opt/local/var/macports/software /bin/ls -1d * ~/todo.mp cd sudo mv /opt/local /var/tmp/old_macports Moving

OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-08 Thread Darren Weber
What happens to a MacPorts installation when we install a distribution upgrade to OSX, say Leopard to Snow Leopard? Do we need to backup the MacPorts installation, or is the ${prefix} path immune to the upgrade? What about startup items (launchd or anything that violates the mtree)? Thanks in