I just upgraded from a PowerBook to a MacBook Pro. The migration assistant tool kept my old macports system intact. I can still run all of the ports I had installed; particularly, I can still use TeXmacs and teTeX. However, I had built all of my ports as PPC binaries, so they are running via Rosetta. This also means I can't update any of my ports because port fails to recognize the architecture. Since there have been so many posts lately about things failing to build on 10.5, I'm a little scared to wipe my old macports system and rebuild from scratch. I particularly can't afford to be without a LaTeX environment right now. So, is there any way I can "jail" a new installation of macports? If I can build everything successfully, I want to be able to delete the old version and move the new one to the standard location. -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto) CH:D 59