Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On May 22, 2016, at 3:18 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > Eric A. Borisch wrote: >> If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you >> could set: >> >> portarchivetype txz >> >> in macports.conf; on some of the big clang/llvm archives this is ~2x >> improvement... > >

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On May 18, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> On 19 May 2016 at 00:25, Eric A. Borisch wrote: >>> If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you could >>> set: >>> >>>

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

> On May 18, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > On 19 May 2016 at 00:25, Eric A. Borisch wrote: >> If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you could >> set: >> >> portarchivetype txz >> >> in macports.conf; on some of the big clang/llvm archives this is

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 06:38:24PM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: > > If you delete those archives you can no longer deactivate and > > re-activate a port. In addition to the use case above, this is also > > helpful when one of the files installed by the port was corrupted > > for some reason

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:14:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports > > symlink-ed on an external hard drive ? > > I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources > symlinked as well as .../software and

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Nicolas Martin wrote: > Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports symlink-ed > on an external hard drive ? I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources symlinked as well as .../software

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On 19 May 2016 at 00:25, Eric A. Borisch wrote: > If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you could > set: > > portarchivetype txz > > in macports.conf; on some of the big clang/llvm archives this is ~2x > improvement... But in current implementation that probably

Getting rid of port binaries in /software

If you are just looking to save some space at the expense of time, you could set: portarchivetype txz in macports.conf; on some of the big clang/llvm archives this is ~2x improvement... On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt > wrote: > >> On

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

> On May 17, 2016, at 5:38 PM, Nicolas Martin > wrote: > >> >> On May 17, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: >>> I have looked for real answers regarding this question

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

> On May 17, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: >> I have looked for real answers regarding this question through the >> mailing list, but did not really understand the purpose of these >> files. > >

Re: Getting rid of port binaries in /software

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Nicolas Martin wrote: > I have looked for real answers regarding this question through the > mailing list, but did not really understand the purpose of these > files. MacPorts always keeps a tarball of the files installed by a certain port in this

Getting rid of port binaries in /software

Hi, I have looked for real answers regarding this question through the mailing list, but did not really understand the purpose of these files. I have almost 5Gb of archives (tbz2) in /opt/local/var/macports/software. I have already run the port uninstall inactive command, so from my