Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:33:27 -0600 (CST) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up? Message-ID: <20070125233227.D47013@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> 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? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Oliver > > P.S. I'm not very familiar with the complexicity of the pkgtoolset and > ports collection, sorry. I've always used pkg_rmleaves... pops up a nice little dialog listing all the ports that aren't required by any other ports... check the ones you want to get rid of... on my non-serious boxes I tend to check anything I don't recognize and/or things I know I want gone. Then it repeats the process with any new ports that are no longer required due to anything you just removed. Seems to work pretty well for me...
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