On Feb 24, 2011, at 05:11, Russell Jones wrote: >>> Will that work in the general case? How so? >> >> In the general case of a port you have installed, yes. I use: >> >> du -sh /opt/local/var/macports/software/PORTNAME/* >> >> where you would replace "PORTNAME" with the name of the port you want to >> know the installed size of. > > How does that give the right result, though? Are all the apparent files > outside of that directory linked?
Yes. All the files a port installs are in /opt/local/var/macports/software/PORTNAME/*, and all the files outside of there are hardlinks to those files. They take up no additional space. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
