Dear MacPorts Users,
With the forthcoming release of Lion, I am considering moving my MacPorts
installation onto a separate partition when I perform my usual fresh
installation of the new operating system. I haven't seen this topic addressed
in much detail in the archives of this list, so I am requesting comments and/or
advice from others who have attempted such a task.
General feedback is welcome, but there are two questions in which I am
specifically interested:
* Was the location of MacPorts changed during installation or was the default
MacPorts installation moved from /opt/local to a secondary partition which was
then linked to /opt/local? If the latter was done, was a symbolic link created
from /opt/local to the second partition[1] or was the partition mounted at
/opt/local using /etc/fstab or whatever Mac OS X is using these days for static
mountpoints? (I have a Linux background and can't recall at the moment if Mac
OS X uses something different.)
* How does MacPorts handle hard links to the main filesystem, e.g. to
"/Applications/MacPorts/Python 2.6/Python Launcher.app," when it is located on
a separate partition?
[1] It seems there was an issue associated with creating a symbolic link to
/opt/local, but the issue is marked as fixed:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21082
Thank you for your input.
Kindest regards,
Michelle Gill
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Michelle L. Gill, Ph.D.
NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Palmer Laboratory
Columbia University Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Black Building, Room 511
650 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Phone: (212) 305-0257
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