Re: Transferring complete MacPorts prefix to other Mac (was: Two simple questions)

2011-05-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 8, 2011, at 12:59, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: Say I set up a complex installation of MacPorts (i.e., tonos of different ports) using standard procedures (i.e., everything installed in the /opt/... directory) in an Intel iMac My questions are: 1. Can I now just copy that directory to

Re: Transferring complete MacPorts prefix to other Mac

2011-05-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
We should keep this discussion on the mailing list as well. I'm forwarding your message there so others can read your response. On May 9, 2011, at 07:21, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: Ryan, I tried this because I thought it was easier for me to set up ~10 machines this way. And yes I started

Re: Transferring complete MacPorts prefix to other Mac

2011-05-09 Thread Bayard Bell
Based on the information you provided I will proceed to re-install everything from scratch on those machines. The problem is, I don't remember me testing if rsync preserves links during transfer, at least using the command I used (rsync -vazuE) -a implies -l, so you should be good on that

Re: Transferring complete MacPorts prefix to other Mac (was: Two simple questions)

2011-05-09 Thread Arno Hautala
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 06:16, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On May 8, 2011, at 12:59, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: Say I set up a complex installation of MacPorts (i.e., tonos of different ports) using standard procedures (i.e., everything installed in the /opt/... directory) in an