MacPorts AutoBuild

[Joshua Root]

Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> 
> ...
>>
>> Have you tried using activate/deactivate instead of archives/ 
>> uninstall? I don't know if it would be significantly faster or not,  
>> but it would probably be worth testing. I might eventually have time  
>> to investigate this (but probably not for the next week or so).
>>
> 
> Hmm, that's an interesting thought; since activate only creates hard  
> links it'll definitely be faster than extracting the archive followed  
> by creating those hard links.  While inactive, ports shouldn't be  
> looking in /opt/local/var/macports/software for stuff, so should be  
> safe.  Thanks for the idea.

I assume you're using trunk, so it should be fine, but I just thought 
I'd mention that it won't work with 1.6.0 because of #7361: 
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/7361>.

- Josh