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Subject: Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports
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Chuck Swiger writes:

>  > I have a server with minimal disk space.  is there a way to build  
>  > from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is  
>  > needed for the build and then it is removed?
>  
>  You're describing the default behavior of ports-- it only
>  downloads sources which are needed for the current build.  To
>  clean up sources and so forth, look to portsclean (from
>  portupgrade).

	There is also the "distclean" target of make, which will get
rid of the source tarball.


				Robert Huff