On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Brad Cox wrote:
> The apple update hassle has forced me to do something to free up space
> on my root partition. Its down to moving fink elsewhere or trashing it
> altogether. Can someone PLEASE advise?
Yes. If you need the space and you know what you're doing -- and it sounds
like you do -- then by all means give it a try.
> I've asked about this before and only got vague speculations that
> applications "might" break. I'm hoping for a definitive answer.
I think that's called "covering our asses" :) . I personally have moved
all subdirectories under /sw to a different partition, and have had no
problems. It's just that doing this was kind of a pain, and I don't feel
comfortable enough with the procedure to walk anyone else though it. But
if you know what you're doing, then yes you should be able to move the
entire /sw tree to a different location, then symlink /Volumes/foo/sw to
/sw and, if things go for you as they have for me, everything should work.
% cd /
% tar -zcvf /Volumes/b2/fink.tgz sw
% cd /Volumes/b2
% tar -zxvf fink.tgz
% ln -s /Volumes/b2/sw /sw
I *think* that'll work (it's roughly what I ended up doing in the end),
but if anything breaks I disavow all knowledge of this procedure :)
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