On 29-Sep-08, at 1:43 PM, Eric Cronin wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Charles Darwin wrote: > >> >> On 28-Sep-08, at 4:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Sep 28, 2008, at 07:33, Rainer Müller wrote: >>> >>>> Charles Darwin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is it possible to install ports on a zfs formatted volume? >>>> >>>> Can't think of a reason why it should not be possible. >>>> >>>>> and if so, >>>>> what is the proper way of doing it? Would ´PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/ >>>>> bin:/ >>>>> usr/sbin ./configure --enable-readline --prefix=path/to/zfs/some/ >>>>> dir/ >>>>> opt´ do it? >>>> >>>> If this is the only install of MacPorts on this Mac this will work. >>>> It >>>> will install the MacPorts Tcl package to /Library/Tcl. >>>> But you can also specify another location in order to have >>>> everything on >>>> one filesystem, for example: >>>> --with-tclpackage=path/to/zfs/some/dir/opt/Library/Tcl >>> >>> Also consider your applications and frameworks. You may want to use >>> --with-applications-dir and --with-frameworks-dir also. >>> >>> So if you want everything to be on the ZFS drive, then you may want: >>> >>> >>> PREFIX=/path/to/zfs/some/dir >>> > > > > Also keep in mind that with zfs its possible to just do "zfs set > mountpoint=/opt mypool/macports" and then the default location (/ > opt) is under ZFS. I don't think this confuses the finder/carbon > apps any more than the /Volumes/mypool/myfilesystem mountpoints do > already. > > Thanks, > Eric
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