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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:46:26AM -0500, Jonathan Horne 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?

Install the portupgrade port and use "portsclean -CD" to sweep
/usr/ports/ of spare working files and to clear /usr/ports/distfiles/ of
all non-current source files.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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