Macports in a sparsebundle

Mike Schroll macports at logicx.us
Mon Jan 12 12:33:44 PST 2009


Since macports include the huge ports tree, with many thousands of
files (which could be better stored compressed); and for those who use
macports not very often -- I was curious if anyone has considered or
attempted keeping macports in a sparsebundle?

In this way; you could keep the sparsebundle tucked away when not
needed; mount it and update/install ports as required.

Any thoughts on how best to accomplish this?

I'm particularly interested in doing this with dropbox
(www.getdropbox.com).  In this way I could have a single macports tree
that I access from all my macs; and not have to do updates everywhere.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

-Mike Schroll


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