On Jul 19, 2011, at 08:06, Michelle Gill wrote: > General feedback is welcome, but there are two questions in which I am > specifically interested: > > * Was the location of MacPorts changed during installation or was the default > MacPorts installation moved from /opt/local to a secondary partition which > was then linked to /opt/local? If the latter was done, was a symbolic link > created from /opt/local to the second partition[1] or was the partition > mounted at /opt/local using /etc/fstab or whatever Mac OS X is using these > days for static mountpoints? (I have a Linux background and can't recall at > the moment if Mac OS X uses something different.) > > * How does MacPorts handle hard links to the main filesystem, e.g. to > "/Applications/MacPorts/Python 2.6/Python Launcher.app," when it is located > on a separate partition?
I don't think such a hardlink can exist, since I think a hardlink must point to something on the same volume. I suggest you compile MacPorts from source using a custom prefix -- on your second partition. Also locate the frameworks and applications there. Then almost everything will be nicely contained on your second drive. PREFIX="/Volumes/myvolume/macports" ./configure \ --prefix=$PREFIX \ --with-tclpackage=$PREFIX/Library/Tcl \ --with-applications-dir=$PREFIX/Applications \ --with-frameworks-dir=$PREFIX/Library/Frameworks \ --enable-readline make sudo make install ln -s $PREFIX/Applications /Applications/MacPorts _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
