FYI - AWS outage took down GitHub yesterday

2017-03-01 Thread William H. Magill
Yesterday (Tuesday 28 February), Amazon Web Services, suffered a significant outage. Among the services impacted was GitHub. AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/ Things were apparently

Re: FYI - AWS outage took down GitHub yesterday

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 1, 2017, at 11:42, William H. Magill wrote: > > Yesterday (Tuesday 28 February), Amazon Web Services, suffered a significant > outage. > > Among the services impacted was GitHub. Yes, that's correct. The MacPorts 2.4.1 installers on GitHub could not be accessed during that time. The fil

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to > another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning on > following the Migration instructions in the wiki. (I was planning on > rebuilding gmp,

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to > another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning > on following the Migration instructions in the wiki. (I was planning on > rebuilding gmp, si

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 14:45, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > > On 03/01/2017 12:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to >> another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning on >> following the Migration instructions

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 17:09, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to > another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning on > following the Migration ins

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I'm not talking about an unusual case. I'm talking about the completely > normal case that I expect all users will undergo when moving to a new > computer: complete the setup assistant and use it to transfer data from > their old computer. If

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 17:34, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I'm not talking about an unusual case. I'm talking about the completely > normal case that I expect all users will undergo when moving to a new > computer: complete the setup assist

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 17:07, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to >> another. Since both systems are the same macOS version, I wasn't planning on >> following the Migration

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Anderson
Yeah, I've never used the migration assistant since it has always caused me heartache, but I bet we have a lot of users that do. It's an interesting case. We should at least come up with advice as to how to get rid of all this crap and start fresh. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Anderson
I think the "best" course of action for you is to delete all the users and then follow the migration instructions. But yeah, there has to be some way to undo this damage programmatically. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > O

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 17:07, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >> >>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> I've just used Migration Assistant to migrate from one Sierra system to >>> another. Since both systems are the same macO

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 1, 2017, at 18:04, Mark Anderson wrote: > > I think the "best" course of action for you is to delete all the users and > then follow the migration instructions. But yeah, there has to be some way to > undo this damage programmatically. I don't believe following the migration instruction

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I don't believe following the migration instructions will do anything > useful. It's for moving to a different CPU or OS version; I'm not doing > either. In fact only one change is needed: you do some of the early steps on the origin system

Re: Migration Assistant moved MacPorts home directories

2017-03-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2017, at 18:04, Mark Anderson wrote: >> >> I think the "best" course of action for you is to delete all the users and >> then follow the migration instructions. But yeah, there has to be some way >> to undo this damage programmat