macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

2017-08-13 Thread db
I perchance stumbled upon this post [1] and couldn't find what's the actual state. In my system du reports ~8.8G for my prefix while Finder ~9.4. What's changed from then? [1] https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2010-May/011938.html

Re: macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

2017-08-13 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, - On 13 Aug, 2017, at 14:28, db iams...@gmail.com wrote: > I perchance stumbled upon this post [1] and couldn't find what's the actual > state. > > In my system du reports ~8.8G for my prefix while Finder ~9.4. > > What's changed from then? MacPorts no longer uses hardlinks. We now kee

Re: macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

2017-08-13 Thread db
On 13 Aug 2017, at 18:46, Clemens Lang wrote: > MacPorts no longer uses hardlinks. We now keep the pristine state in archives > in /opt/local/var/macports/software instead of hardlinking everything from > there. Not even for other parts that I'm not aware of, that would explain the difference