MacPorts installation on a separate partition

[Michelle Gill]

Dear MacPorts Users,

With the forthcoming release of Lion, I am considering moving my MacPorts installation onto a separate partition when I perform my usual fresh installation of the new operating system. I haven't seen this topic addressed in much detail in the archives of this list, so I am requesting comments and/or advice from others who have attempted such a task.



General feedback is welcome, but there are two questions in which I am specifically interested:

* Was the location of MacPorts changed during installation or was the default MacPorts installation moved from /opt/local to a secondary partition which was then linked to /opt/local? If the latter was done, was a symbolic link created from /opt/local to the second partition[1] or was the partition mounted at /opt/local using /etc/fstab or whatever Mac OS X is using these days for static mountpoints? (I have a Linux background and can't recall at the moment if Mac OS X uses something different.)

* How does MacPorts handle hard links to the main filesystem, e.g. to "/Applications/MacPorts/Python 2.6/Python Launcher.app," when it is located on a separate partition? 

[1] It seems there was an issue associated with creating a symbolic link to /opt/local, but the issue is marked as fixed: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21082




Thank you for your input.

Kindest regards,
Michelle Gill

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Michelle L. Gill, Ph.D.
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