According to Fink's documentation, adding a ".build" extension to the
folder name has the same effect as adding a ".noindex" extension to it,
which is what they do with their build folder:
http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/uguide.en.html#conf.optional
So that could be another option...
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@cogeco.ca>
wrote:
> At 11:02 PM +0200 6/3/14, Clemens Lang wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sometimes use EasyFind to search in portfiles. I noticed today
>>> that the macports folder under ${prefix}/var is no longer visible. I
>>> would guess this happened after I upgraded to MacPorts 2.3 but I
>>> can't be certain. Using the command line, I see the following:
>>> [Š]
>>>
>>> Was it an intended change to hide this directory? Or a glitch on my
>>> system?
>>>
>>
>> That was intentional. In specific, it's this Changelog entry:
>>
>> Disable Spotlight indexing on build directories, distfiles,
>> registry, log files, archives, base source and the default ports
>> tree. (cal in r113649)
>>
>> You can avoid this by manually reverting the change and touching a file
>> named ".nohide" in the directory. See
>> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/113649
>>
>
> Thanks. I noticed that in the change log but didn't see how it was
> implemented.
>
> Based on some searching (ie no hands-on experience!), it seems that it
> might be simpler to create a ".metadata_never_index" file [1] inside that
> folder to encourage Spotlight to leave it alone. Alternatively, we could
> add ".noindex" to the folder name to achieve the same effect.
>
> Wouldn't one of these be a better solution?
>
> Craig
>
> [1] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92784/
> preventing-spotlight-from-indexing-files-folders
>
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