Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:20:27 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: knu@freebsd.org, kris@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfiles auto cleanup on port upgrade? Message-ID: <20021006042027.GA9904@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20021006035758.GW95327@elvis.mu.org> References: <20021006035758.GW95327@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 08:57:58PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think installed ports should record the distfiles used to install > them, that way when a port is upgraded the old now useless distfiles > can be automagically deleted. > > I'd love to supply patches for this but the learning curve to actually > facilitate this looks too steep for someone not very familiar with > ports/packages/portupgrade. > I don't know if that's the job for ports, what if people want to keep around old distfiles, but portsclean does what you want, have you tried it? -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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