> For a test I was planning to adapt the migration approach. Save the > ‘requested’ list. Uninstall all ports. Temporary mv /usr/bin/python out of > the way. Build the requested list. > > I can do this on a secondary system. > > This would tell me at least that the ports I have installed all install > without /usr/bin/python, which takes care of any build dependencies.
I did try, but failed. I was able to turn off system integrity protection, but that still leaves me with a boot disk that is read-only, so temporarily moving /usr/bin/python out of the way did not work. I haven’t investigated going beyond simply disabling SIP. So far, then, no success at trying to emulate the 12.3 macOS situation regarding python on macOS 12.2.1. G
