Maybe you could try using a manual entry in fstab? Not the exact situation, but
I've been running macports from a portable SSD for years, without issue.
The SSD has the macports installation under 'local' and I've added an entry in
/etc/fstab so the drive is always mounted in /opt
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On 11 Aug 2024 at 16:31 -0400, Sergey Fedorov <vital....@gmail.com>, wrote:
> For testing purposes, I want to use an existing MacPorts installation with
> another local system (same major darwin version, different minor). Is there a
> way to do that besides actually copying the whole tree (or reproducing it via
> installing)?
>
> Specifically, I want to try building a few specific ports, but I neither want
> to build everything from scratch (that will take days of compilation) nor
> ditto a multi-gigabyte tree (that is feasible but inconvenient).
> Simply symlinking /opt/local from a volume with MacPorts into /opt/local on a
> system of interest does not work correctly.
>
> Any alternatives which will actually work as intended? I.e. I want a clean
> system to use /opt/local from another volume.
> Or can I configure MacPorts on the system of interest to use a prefix
> pointing to ${another_local_volume}/opt/local?
