Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:53:13 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me) Message-ID: <17648.57065.350733.312979@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200608261919.07106.mlobo@digiart.art.br> References: <200608261919.07106.mlobo@digiart.art.br>
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In <200608261919.07106.mlobo@digiart.art.br>, Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> typed: > Hi; > > My /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was just from the > 'work' directories ! > > Removing them one by one was a pain so I wrote this little utility to wipe > them off. Setting WORDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf will cause all the 'work' directories to be put in that directory. While cleaning them up wasn't my reason for doing that (I shared /usr/ports across several platforms), it sures makes cleaing up the work directories easy. Ditto for DISTDIR, if you want to clean up distfiles. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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