"Daniel J. Luke" <dluke@geeklair.net> on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:03 PM -0800 wrote:

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I think this issue has been broached before, but as it is still ongoing, I'd like to raise it up again. I'd like to install MacPorts on a different drive other than my boot-up drive. The current version of DarwinPorts-1.3.1 lets me select the disk to install on, but does not run properly after installation.

If you build/install from source, you should be able to get a working macports install wherever you want it.

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Can this be fixed in the next release? Actually, I was hoping that MacPorts would be even more location-independent. I would like to install MacPorts on a network drive under Mac OSX Server which shares its available ports and libraries with client OSX machines on the network. I'm not sure how much effort or re-organization of the files involved, but is this a feature that others would find worthwhile as well?

Our installer should probably limit installation to the boot drive so that things 'just work' (while alternative install locations are supported/available with the source install).

Oh I see my question about http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/7534 has been addressed in this parallel thread. Also, I'll see if I can stick some verbiage in the README installer .dmg file to warn people about trying to install into other than /opt/local with the .dmg installer, since I am guessing no actuial installer changes will be made for this point release. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/11010 Mark