Synchronizing Two Macports Installations

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Thu Sep 29 14:34:46 PDT 2011


On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Benoît T wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Le 29 sept. 2011 à 23:14, Francisco Garcia Rodriguez a écrit :
>> I am not sure if a solution could be just syncing the var/macports/ build and software folders. In that case I could make an script that after a sync, pull the installed packages of the other computer and try to auto-install/remove its own ports
> 
> 
> i can't see a reason why plain rsync on the whole /opt/local would't do just the right thing:
> - macports does not use attributes so you do not need to use the special rsync from CarbonCopyCloner
> - macports is all of /opt/local, and only that (right??)

Also need /Applications/MacPorts and it may drop files in /Library/Launch* for daemons.

Blair



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