Alakazam wrote: > On 17 mai 08, at 23:09, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> Alakazam wrote: >>> The question of MacPorts still being universal after a selfupdate >>> is indicated as being open. >> No, MacPorts is not being build universal on selfupdate.
> > Even if the +universal variant is added to all ports in variants.conf > (I can imagine this is completely unrelated) ? Currently that does not affect MacPorts base. port selfupdate calls a hardcoded ./configure command. For the future it would be good if MacPorts itself would use its own port, so that 'port selfupdate' would become the same as 'port sync && port upgrade MacPorts'. > Then transferring MacPorts from one machine to another is going to be > a bit more complex than simply transferring /opt/local ? > > Any suggestions on how to do this properly so that "port list > installed", which might be useful on the secondary mac, still works > correctly ? port archives would be a possibility. But at the moment it is not that easy to build archives. We had a discussion lately on that topic, see "Manual Install" started by Simon Wheatley [1]. Rainer [1] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
