From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 5 21:23:59 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 794CC37B401; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE2643E6E; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 061EEAE165; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:23:57 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: knu@freebsd.org, kris@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfiles auto cleanup on port upgrade? Message-ID: <20021006042357.GX95327@elvis.mu.org> References: <20021006035758.GW95327@elvis.mu.org> <20021006042027.GA9904@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021006042027.GA9904@leviathan.inethouston.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * David W. Chapman Jr. [021005 21:20] wrote: > 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? No, but it looks like it's what I was looking for, thanks! -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message