A 1.4 release / Insall MacPorts of different drive

[Mark Duling]

"Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at
1:03 PM -0800 wrote:
>> I think this issue has been broached before, but as it is still  
>> ongoing, I'd like to raise it up again.  I'd like to install  
>> MacPorts on a different drive other than my boot-up drive.  The  
>> current version of DarwinPorts-1.3.1 lets me select the disk to  
>> install on, but does not run properly after installation.
>
>If you build/install from source, you should be able to get a working  
>macports install wherever you want it.
>
>> Can this be fixed in the next release?  Actually, I was hoping that  
>> MacPorts would be even more location-independent.  I would like to  
>> install MacPorts on a network drive under Mac OSX Server which  
>> shares its available ports and libraries with client OSX machines  
>> on the network. I'm not sure how much effort or re-organization of  
>> the files involved, but is this a feature that others would find  
>> worthwhile as well?
>
>Our installer should probably limit installation to the boot drive so  
>that things 'just work' (while alternative install locations are  
>supported/available with the source install).

Oh I see my question about

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/7534

has been addressed in this parallel thread.

Also, I'll see if I can stick some verbiage in the README installer .dmg
file to warn people about trying to install into other than /opt/local
with the .dmg installer, since I am guessing no actuial installer changes
will be made for this  point release.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/11010

Mark