Nils Breunese wrote:
Bill Cole <macportsusers-20171215 at billmail.scconsult.com
<https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users>>:
> The following ports were restored with changes:
> - openjdk17-zulu
> state changed from 'installed' to 'inactive'
> - openjdk21-temurin
> state changed from 'installed' to 'inactive'
>
In what circumstances do ‘restores’ like this happen? A change from ‘installed’ to ‘inactive’ doesn’t sound like a ‘restore’ to me, but maybe this problem is correcting a previously incorrect state? Or is this really just some form of a failure to install these ports for a newer OS? I’m asking because I maintain these two ports and I wonder if something is wrong with them.
This behaviour is consistent with these ports having been active but not
marked as requested. By default, only requested ports and their
dependencies are migrated. (If interactive questions are on, you get an
"are you sure?" at the start of the process that lists ports that won't
be migrated. There's a --all flag to include unrequested ports.)
Normally, ports that aren't restored would end up uninstalled, but in
this case, they are just left inactive because they are compatible with
the current platform since they are "darwin any".
The phrasing "restored with changes" could probably be improved to
better describe what actually happened, which is that they were
deactivated and then not restored at all.
- Josh
