Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:19:00 -0500 From: ajm <ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Clean Message-ID: <20070714031900.GA1023@powerfull.bsd> In-Reply-To: <200707131305.12565.josh@tcbug.org> References: <004601c7c56f$9d08f480$6501a8c0@GRANT> <200707131305.12565.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:05:09PM -0500, 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
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Paetzel
or you can put the following in a script
# cleaning all work directories of install ports.
plist=`pkg_version -voI |awk '{ print $1 }'`
for porg in $plist ; do
cd /usr/ports/${porg} && make clean
done
--
Alexander
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
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