On Monday January 19 2015 17:21:14 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Spotlight would find items in the /opt/local/var/macports/software directory.
> So when you were trying to launch an application in /Applications/MacPorts,
> it might find the copy in /opt/local/var/macports/software instead, which
> might not work.
That was before macports/software contained tarballs, I presume.
> That would be a possible solution for the Spotlight issues but not for the
> Time Machine issues.
Why not for Time Machine? It can't (or rather, couldn't) make duplicate backups
if one of the 2 sources is in an excluded directory, yes?
> I also do not know what would happen if a user who already has ports
> installed with bz2 archives suddenly changes the archive format to xz (or,
> more generally, makes any change to the archive format). Would MacPorts still
> know how to find the existing archive and remove it when a port is
> uninstalled or upgraded?
I suppose there is normally only 1 tarball per installed version or variant, so
the search algorithm could omit the compressor extension from the search
pattern.
> > What parts of ${prefix}/var/macports are used during normal operation, so
> > as long as you don't use the port command?
>
> None. That directory is for the port command to use, and nobody else.
So it could indeed be on a removable/external drive that's mounted only for
port maintenance.
R
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