> On Mar 1, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixi...@macports.org> wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >> I'm just unclear why I'm the first to report this problem. Has nobody used >> migration assistant? Or has everybody just ended up with broken >> installations and either not realized or not bothered to report it? > > I have used migration assistant with the approach I mentioned, I migrated > only my “home” account and followed the MacPorts migration instructions. If I > ended up with broken ports I yet to notice. Perhaps we could register the > accounts port creates along with file permissions and provide “fix > permissions” functionality similar to Disk Utility.
I have used the Migration Assistant many times. I too only ever migrate the real user account(s) I am interested in. I do not migrate those system level accounts. I then re-install Macports from scratch when moving to a new machine. I install the ports I actually want as I need them. So I would not use the migration instructions for this case. I also normally re-install all non-Macports applications on a new machine and do not try to migrate them. Cheers! Frank
