MacPorts installation on a separate partition

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Michelle Gill wrote:
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>> I don't think such a hardlink can exist, since I think a hardlink must point to something on the same volume.
> 
> I should have been more clear, but this is why I was asking that question. My understanding is also that hard links must be within the same volume so that the linked files have the same inode number.

I believe the base code falls back to doing a symlink if a hardlink can't be created (a long time ago, there used to be image options to use symlinks, hardlinks, or to copy the files).

The next release behaves differently, though.

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