Re: /opt/local/var/macports

[Joshua Root]

Are there negative side-effects to moving this largish subdirectory to an 
external drive and connecting via soft link?


I haven't tried it myself in a while, but as far as I know having it on 
another volume should work fine. You don't need the link, since this 
location is configurable as 'portdbpath' in macports.conf. The negative 
effects are really just the usual effects of using an external drive. 
Builds and registry operations will be limited by the drive's speed, and 
there will be an additional performance penalty when activating ports 
because the files are extracted in the software directory and then moved 
into place, and that move will be across volumes with this configuration.


- Josh

/opt/local/var/macports

[Jim Secan]

Are there negative side-effects to moving this largish subdirectory to an 
external drive and connecting via soft link?

Jim
Seattle, WA

Re: /opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock

[Franco Vaccari]

Check if you have another port command running or stuck, and eventually kill it 
if you don’t think it should be there. Then retry your install command

Franco

> On 18 Mar 2020, at 12:47, belanger  wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install gcc and gfortran with sudo port install gcc6 +gfortran 
> and I get this message and nothing happens
> /opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Genevieve

/opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock

[belanger]

I am trying to install gcc and gfortran with sudo port install gcc6 
+gfortran and I get this message and nothing happens



 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock

Thanks for your help

Genevieve