How to test things easily without affecting installed ports?

[John Korchok]

Hi Mike,

I would buy a cheap second hard disk, install OS X on it and boot into it
when you want to experiment. In addition to safeguarding your working
software, you'll have a fallback if your main hard disk fails.

John 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org 
> [mailto:macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michal Roszka
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:13 PM
> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: How to test things easily without affecting installed ports?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to test some things, mostly whether a port I maintain 
> build correctly or not. In addition, I do not want to affect 
> software I actually use for my everyday work.
> 
> I was thinking about additional MacPorts installation, which 
> could have it's own directory tree to deal with, but it seems 
> difficult to me. Multiple Mac OS X installation does not 
> sound good either, does it? What would you suggest?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	-- Mike.
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