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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:20:05 -0600
From:      Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New portmaster with -o and other fixes
Message-ID:  <20070224022005.GB34523@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <45DDEAFC.8060406@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <45DDEAFC.8060406@FreeBSD.org>

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>   Log:
> 
>   New Feature
>   ===========
>   --clean-distfiles[-all] options to check /usr/ports/distfiles for
>   stale stuff, and either offer to delete them or delete them all
>   without prompting.

That's excellent news!  Now I can use -D during upgrades to avoid
pausing between port builds, and run this later to manually clean up the
distfiles.

I'm a bit paranoid about automatically deleting them -- had one too many
times when port[master|upgrade|foo] got confused by slave ports or weird
file names and deleted hard to replace* distfiles.

(* Stuff like the openoffice source that is huge, or java source that you
have to fetch manually)

Thanks again for your work on portmaster!

Craig



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