From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 1 5:33: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7358714FB7 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 05:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 60143 invoked by uid 1003); 1 May 1999 14:33:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 14:33:51 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Chuck Robey Cc: Keith Jang , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usefull script to clean /usr/ports/distfiles. Testers neded Message-ID: <19990501143351.A42561@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990501104125.A15602@keith.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:32:00PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 1999-04-30 (23:32), Chuck Robey wrote: > Hmmm, no one told you about /usr/ports/sysutils/pib, and anyone managing > a lot of ports without it is missing a good bet. I think it was Mike > Smith's baby. It does require tk, and hence X, and hence a bit more than this task really needs, especially on servers that don't run X. Also, I think this'll plug in easier into other scripts - instead of deleting the distfile, the script'll print it's name to STDOUT, and you can move it elsewhere, or whatever, as you want. (or maybe that's a "lots of little tools synergy" theorem) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message