From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 04:12:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F79D16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D22543D1F for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:12:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roop.nanuwa@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id w29so1531503cwb for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.118.71 with SMTP id q71mr1725951cwc; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <75f3f70504062921126b075a65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:12:20 -0700 From: Roop Nanuwa To: knu@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20040529 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:12:52 -0000 Just a quick feature request for portupgrade/portinstall. It seems that the -c/-C options are based on the whole set of installs so there is no cleaning done inbetween dependency installations. A problem occurs for some large meta-ports such as gnome2 or XFree86 which take quite a lot of disk space to build. I would suggest adding an option that would allow a clean before and/or after each dependency was installed as to minimize the maximum disk space used during installation of such large ports. --roop