Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-08-29 Thread Eitan Adler
What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart and removed the check from libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl and just did 'sudo port upgrade outdated' to rebuild the world. It got about 90% of the way through and only error

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-08-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 30 August 2017 at 03:01, Eitan Adler wrote: > What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major > versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart and removed the check > from libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl and just did 'sudo > port upgrade outdated' to rebuild the wo

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-08-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, Sorry, I accidentally clicked on the wrong place (Send) while the browser was doing its smart layout changes. On 30 August 2017 at 12:16, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 30 August 2017 at 03:01, Eitan Adler wrote: >> What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major >> versions? I

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-08-30 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 06:01:36PM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major > versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart and removed the check > from libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl and just did 'sudo > port upgrade outdated

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-09-01 Thread Joshua Root
On 2017-8-30 11:01 , Eitan Adler wrote: What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart and removed the check from libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl and just did 'sudo port upgrade outdated' to rebuild the world. It got a

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-09-01 Thread Eitan Adler
On Friday, 1 September 2017, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2017-8-30 11:01 , Eitan Adler wrote: > >> What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major >> versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart and removed the check >> from libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl and just di

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-09-02 Thread Joshua Root
On 2017-9-2 16:29 , Eitan Adler wrote: On Friday, 1 September 2017, Joshua Root > wrote: On 2017-8-30 11:01 , Eitan Adler wrote: What is the underlying reason to require a reinstall across major versions? I did something silly/stupid/smart  and r

Re: Why does macports require a migration across major version bumps?

2017-09-02 Thread db
On 30 Aug 2017, at 20:29, Clemens Lang wrote: > Use 'sudo port -f selfupdate' instead, which should also recompile your > version of MacPorts. > In theory, reinstalling MacPorts and using 'sudo port -t upgrade > outdated' after an OS update should thus have the same effect as the > migration inst