Minimising MacPorts Internal Disk Usage

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Before you start messing around like this, have you first made sure you 
don't have a lot of unwanted stuff lying around you don't need.

sudo port list inactive

will show packages updated, but not active. Usually the result of an 
update, which doesn't completely remove the old versions. You need to run

sudo port uninstall inactive

to do that

Chris

On 15/08/13 03:21, Bob M wrote:
> Hi all; I have an MB air with internal (smallish) SSD. I need some of
> the programs provided by MacPorts at all times, but I'm happy to do
> all builds while connected to a large-ish external HD. I just hit a
> crisis when the /opt directories hit 27GB. So what I want to do is to
> put as much as possible of the build environment onto the HD, and
> substitute symbolic links on the SSD. I haven't tried to use it yet -
> I'm assuming this is OK so long as nothing hard-links into these
> directories.
>
> The current status for the large directories in /opt is:
> /opt/local/var/macports
>      build                                    moved to HD
>      distfiles                                    moved to HD
>      software                                    not sure if this can be moved
> /opt
>      lib                                        I assume this can't be moved
>      libexec                                    I assume this can't be moved
>      share                                    I assume this can't be moved
> (everything else is less than 250 MB, so not worth worrying about). So
> far, I've saved about 12GB on the SSD, but that still leaves around
> 15GB (some of which may be Xcode-related rather than MacPorts, I'm not
> sure where Xcode puts stuff). I'd like to go further if it's possible.
> So I'd appreciate any suggestions, especially about
> /opt/local/var/macports/software
>      Thanks and Best WIshes
>      Bob
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