MacPorts AutoBuild

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Bryan Blackburn 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.

If it doesn't work for some reason (like #7361 or some other issue)  
using direct mode instead of image mode would be an easy minor  
performance improvement (saving the time used to make the hardlinks).  
Probably not as much of a win as being able to use activate/ 
deactivate, though.

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