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Subject: Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the
> ports on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled
> over time. I was wondering if there is not an elegant, sophisticated
> way cleaning up those files not needed anymore.

There shouldn't be any need to do that, they are supposed to be deleted
automatically. I have 22371, if you have much more than that you
probably should remove the contents of /var/db/portsnap/ and do another
fetch.