From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 20:04:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD52816A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED80B43FE5 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [66.92.104.201] (g4.reppep.com [66.92.104.201]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA340FE63; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: 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> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:00:37 -0400 To: Brett Glass From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:04:07 -0000 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: Rockefeller University: