Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:25:35 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing orphan ports Message-ID: <3C30836F.2070205@potentialtech.com> References: <20011231124158.5cd12a5b.johann@broadpark.no>
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J.S. wrote: > How is this possible? > > My collection of installed packages on this system has grown rather > rapidly the last few months, and as I delete one port it always leaves a > ton of orphan ports behind. > > Is there any way these ports can be recognized and removed? Perhaps using > portupgrade? I think portupgrade is going to be the tool for the job. Michael Lucas wrote and excellent article about it: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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