Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:09:22 -0500 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: "Philip Hallstrom" <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up? Message-ID: <3ee9ca710701260509v5b7d49a1l64e65ca898318b5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070125233227.D47013@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20070125233227.D47013@bravo.pjkh.com>
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On 1/26/07, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote: > > 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 prefer portmanager -slid. > > 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... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream
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