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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>

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