Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:32:59 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up? Message-ID: <d7195cff0701251732t6925ad88xb47fd8664fffdc5a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070125194925.70872a21.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20070125194925.70872a21.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On 25/01/07, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote: > In response to "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > > > Well, > > I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could > > watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. > > > > Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install > > dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, > > but very often dependencies remains on the system and doing this > > deletion a couple of times will end in some 'zombie' remains of ports. > > > > Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like > > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a > > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by > > another port? > > sysutils/pkg_cutleaves > portupgrade includes pkg_deinstall, which has switch to recursively remove all dependancies which are no longer used by any other pkg/port, which is a way to head this sort of thing off at the pass. -- --
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