Re: Time Machine restore

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Mark Brethen  wrote:
>
> > On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:38 PM, Brandon Allbery  wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Mark Brethen 
> wrote:
> > I had my hard drive wiped with a clean install of El Capitan. I noticed
> in the Time Machine checklist a MacPorts item with a message that MacPorts
> Home would moved to my user (size was zero kb). What is this and do I need
> to re-install macports? port command seems to work fine and I did not
> change operating systems.
> >
> > MacPorts sets up a non-GUI user that it does builds under (instead of
> doing them as root). Apparently Time Machine doesn't like this and wants to
> make it match your user,
> >
> > I would skip that part of it and reinstall MacPorts to make sure the
> user is set up properly. I don't know offhand if TM will restore things
> like launchd plists properly, or if you should follow Migration to make
> sure installed ports haven't lost anything.
>
> Does that include all of the ports I have installed?
>

Just reinstalling MacPorts would not affect installed ports. The Migration
stuff (https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration) would involve removing and
reinstalling ports.

I suppose you could just reinstall the MacPorts base and then verify that
all active ports have all their files. Reinstall any ports that report
missing files.

oIFS="$IFS"
# note that this is a single newline in single quotes
IFS='
'
for port in $(port -q echo active); do
  for file in $(port -q contents "$port" | sed -n 's/^  //p'); do
test -e "$file" || echo "MISSING from $port: $file"
  done
done
IFS="$oIFS"

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Re: Time Machine restore

[Mark Brethen]

> On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:38 PM, Brandon Allbery  wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Mark Brethen  wrote:
> I had my hard drive wiped with a clean install of El Capitan. I noticed in 
> the Time Machine checklist a MacPorts item with a message that MacPorts Home 
> would moved to my user (size was zero kb). What is this and do I need to 
> re-install macports? port command seems to work fine and I did not change 
> operating systems.
> 
> MacPorts sets up a non-GUI user that it does builds under (instead of doing 
> them as root). Apparently Time Machine doesn't like this and wants to make it 
> match your user,
> 
> I would skip that part of it and reinstall MacPorts to make sure the user is 
> set up properly. I don't know offhand if TM will restore things like launchd 
> plists properly, or if you should follow Migration to make sure installed 
> ports haven't lost anything.
> 
> -- 
> brandon s allbery kf8nh   sine nomine associates
> allber...@gmail.com  ballb...@sinenomine.net
> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net

Does that include all of the ports I have installed?

Mark




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Re: Time Machine restore

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Mark Brethen  wrote:

> I had my hard drive wiped with a clean install of El Capitan. I noticed in
> the Time Machine checklist a MacPorts item with a message that MacPorts
> Home would moved to my user (size was zero kb). What is this and do I need
> to re-install macports? port command seems to work fine and I did not
> change operating systems.


MacPorts sets up a non-GUI user that it does builds under (instead of doing
them as root). Apparently Time Machine doesn't like this and wants to make
it match your user,

I would skip that part of it and reinstall MacPorts to make sure the user
is set up properly. I don't know offhand if TM will restore things like
launchd plists properly, or if you should follow Migration to make sure
installed ports haven't lost anything.

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