Should have mentioned I’ve already done that as my final fall-back, but I’d 
rather be able to get back to exactly where I was vis-a-vis MacPorts if I step 
on something I shouldn’t have.

Jim
Seattle, WA

> On May 7, 2022, at 11:00 AM, chilli.names...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> May want to save a copy of output of
> 
> port list requested
> 
> to make it easy to restore if it all goes South. When I'm migrating, I take 
> that list and turn it into an install script.
> 
>> On May 7, 2022, at 13:55, Jim Secan <james.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m about to embark on a major mucking-out of my MacPorts installation on 
>> an El Capitan system.  I believe that if I make a copy of /opt/local that 
>> gives me everything I need to recover if I find myself with a non-working 
>> setup after this process.  Is that right, or are there other directories I 
>> should backup as well?
>> 
>> Jim
>> Seattle, WA
>> 

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