From owner-freebsd-ports  Sat Oct  5 21:20:27 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 5790B37B401; Sat,  5 Oct 2002 21:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id DFE2843E6A; Sat,  5 Oct 2002 21:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net)
Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id AC6FC10DE0E; Sat,  5 Oct 2002 23:20:27 -0500 (CDT)
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>
Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Mail-Followup-To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, knu@freebsd.org,
	kris@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
References: <20021006035758.GW95327@elvis.mu.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20021006035758.GW95327@elvis.mu.org>
X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i
Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-ports.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-ports>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-ports>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

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