Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 19:33:08 -0400 From: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Question Message-ID: <20020908233308.GA83066@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <445.1031527576@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> References: <445.1031527576@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0700, Dave Tweten wrote: >Anyway, I'm looking for a way to use portupgrade and my list of desired ports >to find secondary ports that aren't needed and delete them. So far, the man >pages and my imagination haven't been up to the task. Is there a more fertile >imagination out there with an answer? > >Any insight will be much appreciated. Look at the /var/db/pkg/* dirs. Any one that doesn't have a +REQUIRED_BY file is a port that can be safely whacked. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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