Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
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Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
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Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#2Is there any stopping the update once it's started to move stuff around to get a better start...? Probably not, eh?
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#3If for some reason, you didn't move everything, you can see exactly what's taking so long. For me it was copying every NPM package on my machine.
https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513446291968651264 https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513447060499341313
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#4Is there any stopping the update once it's started to move stuff around to get a better start...? Probably not, eh?
Not that I know of. If you find a way to do that I'll add it to the post.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#5I just upgraded, and Macports had no problem. (Macports uses /opt)
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#6Well, at least I now know what the problem was! (I'm a Homebrew user, and I was at "About a minute remaining" for more than an hour...)
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#7How large was your /usr/local folder before upgrading? Mine is currently at 12GB and I wonder whether I should try to reduce it even more.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#8It seems you really must move it to ~/local or similar as the article points out. Moving to /usr/local.bak seems to still copy the files one by one into recovered items during the last stage of the installation.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#9Isn't it safer to use the "ditto" command for the restore?
sudo mv /usr/local ~/local
then merge it back in
ditto -V ~/local /usr/local
That way it should merge all the files from the backup into the new folder (and show you what it's doing)
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#10Good to know that it could take hours. Upgrading to Yosemite on a Macbook Air (about a month old) and it's taking a few hours so far. Didn't check /usr/local but will just let it go for now.