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If you have homebrew, node/npm, etc. installed that puts files in /usr/local make sure you reserve hours (yes hours) for the install to complete. It will sit a
by SystemOut 12y ago
If you have homebrew, node/npm, etc. installed that puts files in /usr/local make sure you reserve hours (yes hours) for the install to complete. It will sit at "Less than a minute remaining" for potentially hours if you have a lot of files in /usr/local since it has to copy it all back apparently.
Hitting cmd-L will show you the install log which shows you that it is actually still doing something while it sits there for a long time with no apparent change.
- todd8 12y agoIt looks like its going to take all night stuck at "3 minutes remaining" because my MacTeX install of TeXlive has over 135,000 files and is somewhere close to 4GB. It would have been much faster to blow away all of my homebrew installs, emacs, qt, and especially TeX and reinstall after the upgrade. I does eventually finish. I'm typing this on my desktop running Yosemite, which took a long long time because of /usr/local, but my laptop is still working on the install. I believe it's been eight hours! (And both have SSD's)
- tzs 12y agoOr do something like this: $ mkdir ~/local $ sudo mv /usr/local/* ~/local (install Yosemite) $ sudo mv ~/local/* /usr/local Yosemite has nothing in /usr/local, so you don't have to worry that you'll stomp on anything it installs when you move your /usr/local stuff back. That worked fine for me. Only a few minutes at "Less than a minute" (unlike 2 hours on the previous attempt, before I knew about this problem and so gave up and restored from Time Machine).