Josh, thank you for responding. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
> On Jul 11, 2017, at 11:58 AM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2017-7-12 04:43 , Umesh Singla wrote: >> Hi Brad, >> While I was writing for restoring of ports, it seems that I need to include >> another field 'active' along with ports while taking snapshot. This might >> sound obvious now but it wasn't to me before I looked at what is going on, >> closely. While there is something like 'active' port but there's no such >> state as being 'inactive'. > > You want the 'state' property, which is either 'imaged' for installed but > inactive or 'installed' for active. > >> This led me to a further research and I came across this in the migration >> guide: >> "Though it is now quite well-tested, the restore_ports script may fail in >> some cases. One known issue is that the script will fail if there are >> conflicting ports in the list. It's possible to have conflicting ports >> installed provided at most one of the conflicting set is active. If the >> script fails for this reason, you can delete one of the conflicting ports..." >> Do you think it can be solved by merely adding active field? What possible >> conflicts is it talking about? > > This is referring to a case such as having jpeg installed and inactive and > mozjpeg installed and active. The ports themselves conflict. > > - Josh
