Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:00:37 -0400 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots? Message-ID: <p06100205bb8594f92d79@[66.92.104.201]> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030831132719.00d843a0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030830184324.03a13a50@localhost> <5.0.2.1.1.20030828103403.02d683a8@popserver.sfu.ca> <200308280638.AAA19221@lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20030831132719.00d843a0@localhost>
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At 1:44 PM -0600 2003/08/31, Brett Glass wrote: >At 12:37 PM 8/31/2003, Colin Percival wrote: > >> In short, provided that you haven't rebuilt the world locally, if >>FreeBSD Update reports "No updates available", your system is >>definitely up to date. > >That's good to know, though it didn't solve the other problems I mentioned. > >Or a couple I just encountered. First, when I built cvsupdate as a port, >I found that the commands "make clean" and "make distclean" removed the >detritus left behind by creating cvsupdate itself, but did not nuke the >junk that was left behind as the system built other ports on which that one >depended. Going around and deleting everything manually (there was no >automatic mechanism) was a chore. Brett, Have you checked out portsclean (part of portupgrade)? > -C > --workclean Clean out all the working directories of the ports tree. > (cf. WRKDIRPREFIX) > > -D > --distclean Clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any > port in the ports tree. Specified twice (i.e. -DD), > clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any > port that is currently installed. (cf. DISTDIR) Regards, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>;
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