Re: Moving the Dev Tools Docs?
Re: Moving the Dev Tools Docs?
- Subject: Re: Moving the Dev Tools Docs?
- From: hysterion <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:26:34 -0500
Many thanks for these answers. My problem arose because this particular
Mac still had the Sep 2001 Tools, and not enough elbow room to upgrade
on the root partition.
I guess I'll eventually bite the bullet and format a larger root volume.
(I don't have a ready one to mount at /Developer anyway.) But for the
heck of it, I tried upgrading in the current configuration with the Docs
subdirectory removed and unlinked, and it went through without trouble.
Incidentally, I found that problem/question 1) was just a symlink in
$HOME/Library/Preferences/PB Help Prefs/ getting orphaned by the move,
and then autodeleted at the next login. Trashing this Prefs folder and
restarting PB solved it. (No such problem in Apple Help Prefs, which
uses Mac aliases :-P.)
So I can see (some of) the subtlety involved in decoupling future
releases from the root volume, but yes, this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Chris Roberts wrote:
I used FSTAB to mount the Dev volume I use as part of the Root File
system this was painless!
There are many articles about this in regards to a swap partition on the
net you may want to try this..
Chris Roberts
>
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 12:17 PM, Scott Tooker wrote:
For now at least, the Developer Tools (including the documentation)
really need to exist on the root volume. Having parts of the Developer
Tools on different volumes (using symlinks) is not a supported
configuration. I would strongly suggest moving to a larger root volume
(and yes, I personally know how painful that is :(). In the future it
would be nice to decouple the Developer Tools from the root volume, but
for today we are stuck with this constraint.
Scott
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:21 PM, hysterion wrote:
I'm trying to make some room on my OS X partition by moving out the
huge /Developer/Documentation directory. I've tried this by doing:
[localhost:/Developer] fz% sudo tcsh
[localhost:/Developer] root# ditto -v -rsrcFork Documentation/Volumes/OS9/Docs
[localhost:/Developer] root# rm -rf Documentation
[localhost:/Developer] root# ln -s /Volumes/OS9/Docs Documentation
[localhost:/Developer] root# exit
[localhost:/Developer] fz%
This seems to work generally (that is, I can still navigate the Help
files, in both Project Builder and Help Viewer.app)...except for one
glitch that I noticed so far: on "Developer Help Center", the .gifs
are missing. In other words, the browser is no longer finding them
in /Volumes/OS9/Docs/Help/Developer Help Viewer/gfx/ (where they sit).
Questions:
1) Why is this? (Because of the spaces in the path?)
2) Are there any more serious problems down the road?
Will this setup survive future Dev Tools upgrades?
3) Is there a more foolproof way to proceed?
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