Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:54:23 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Cleaning /var/db/ports Message-ID: <B1464955-65F2-4A5E-97EA-62B83AAF74B0@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080325195343.GB23226@atarininja.org> References: <47E949A3.5030103@gmail.com> <4B48E94D-058A-4F79-93B2-B6E498C0B9CE@gmail.com> <20080325195343.GB23226@atarininja.org>
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On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:52:57AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Lars Stokholm wrote: >> >>> Apart from doing 'rm -r /var/db/ports/*' is there a way of >>> cleaning the >>> folder of stale folders and files? >>> >>> I know it takes up no space and that I might aswell leave it >>> alone, but >>> it'd be interesting to know. :) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Lars >> >> pkg_cutleaves -- an excellent Perl port that will help you out with >> that. > > Which, unfortunately won't clean up /var/db/ports. > > I'm not 100% certain but I think the only information stored in > /var/db/ports are distfile recordings and options selections? As > such, > nothing overly important is recorded there and you might be OK to just > blow it all away. Of course I'd make a backup of it first just > incase I > am wrong. > > -- WXS Ah, didn't catch the ports part. My apologies. -Garrett
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