On Fri, 21 May 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
You might conceivably want to run "sudo port reclaim" on occasion to
remove ports and distfiles that are no longer needed. Make sure you look
at the list of ports it prints and confirm that none of them are needed
by you before you allow it to uninstall
On May 21, 2021, at 06:51, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> is there a 'doctor' script that walks over all installed MacPorts
>>> ports and checks whether its dependencies are installed, too? In
>>> general, what's the right action(s) to thoroughly check the
>>> integrity of a MacPorts installation?
On May 21, 2021, at 17:28, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> You can identify what you call zombie ports and what we call obsolete ports
>> with:
>>
>> port installed obsolete
>
> [...]
>
> is there a list somewhere of the recommended actions for the care
On Thu, 20 May 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
You can identify what you call zombie ports and what we call obsolete
ports with:
port installed obsolete
[...]
is there a list somewhere of the recommended actions for the care and
feeding of MacPorts?
My schedule is on Sunday I run "port -u unin
>> So: Is there a command (or a simple shell invocation) to walk over
>> all packages to check whether all dependencies are fulfilled? I
>> suppose that `sudo port upgrade outdated` doesn't do this for
>> efficiency.
>
> Upgrading a port will first install any missing dependencies, so 'sudo
> p
So: Is there a command (or a simple shell invocation) to walk over all
packages to check whether all dependencies are fulfilled? I suppose
that `sudo port upgrade outdated` doesn't do this for efficiency.
Upgrading a port will first install any missing dependencies, so 'sudo
port upgrade insta
>> is there a 'doctor' script that walks over all installed MacPorts
>> ports and checks whether its dependencies are installed, too? In
>> general, what's the right action(s) to thoroughly check the
>> integrity of a MacPorts installation?
>>
>> I have forcibly uninstalled some ports by accide
