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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:53:43 -0400
From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:46:26 -0500
Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote:

> my packages dir is starting to have more than a few packages of incrementing 
> versions.  example:
> 
> [jhorne@athena All] $ ls kde-3*
> kde-3.5.6_1.tbz  kde-3.5.7.tbz
> 
> is there a simple way to clean the packages directory, and only keep the 
> latest version of each package?

I use "portsclean -P" to clean out /usr/ports/packages.  Perhaps it
is what you're looking for.

Randy

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