<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Nicolas Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.martin.3d@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.martin.3d@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Would it be safe then to have some of /opt/local/var/macports symlink-ed on an external hard drive ?</blockquote></div><br>I used to do this on my MacBook Air. One trick was to have .../sources symlinked as well as .../software and .../build; this meant port sync/install/activate/deactivate and friends failed safely if I didn't have the drive attached. (I don't know if this is still true; haven't used it in a while, and there have been a few updates to MacPorts itself since then.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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