libpng 1.5.0 has issues and is breaking builds (but it's not in macports)

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 13:05:29 PST 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 14:49, Scott Webster wrote:
>>
>> Does time machine actually work properly for MacPorts?  I thought it
>> had been posted here that it did not, since both it and MacPorts use
>> hardlinks to work their magic...
>
> Uh, I don't actually know; I haven't had occasion to try it myself. I think the only problem was that hardlinks don't survive the backup process, meaning they'd be backed up and restored as two independent files. So the only problem should be that your installed ports use a bit more disk space, until you upgrade or rebuild them, or even just until you deactivate and reactivate them.
>

Hmm, yeah that makes sense, and doesn't sound so terrible.

Scott


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