Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:20:18 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@riderway.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports Clean Message-ID: <4697C262.6020205@riderway.com> In-Reply-To: <200707131305.12565.josh@tcbug.org> References: <004601c7c56f$9d08f480$6501a8c0@GRANT> <200707131305.12565.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007, Grant Peel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My ports collection on some of the servers is wasting alot of >> space. >> >> What would be the best method to 'cleanout' the ports dir without >> adversly affecting the operation of the rest of the server? >> >> All of the servers are live production servers. >> >> -Grant > > There are a few possibilities. > > 1) cd to each installed ports dir and do a make clean > 2) do the same but a make distclean > 3) rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work > 4) rm -rf /usr/ports and recvsup the tree > No -- install /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade via ports or packages. portsclean -DD portsclean -C -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (philip@riderway.com) 323.219.4708 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.
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