Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:13:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ? Message-ID: <506ACC41.5000100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20121002103310.GA3931@kontrol.kode5.net> References: <201210020808.q9288Y2J023975@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <506AB4C8.6020208@freebsd.org> <20121002103310.GA3931@kontrol.kode5.net>
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On 02/10/2012 11:33, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> Hi Matthew and Anton, so in the meantime what is the best way to
> clear this old stuff out? I do like to clear out code and files that
> are redundant, where possible. What would you suggest?
At the moment, the only way to clear up is to manually remove the
outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports. You can work out what is
out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed
ports obtained by
pkg info -aq
Should only take a few minutes to write a small script to do that.
Be careful not to trash local.sqlite, repo.sqlite or auditfile -- in
fact, anything in /var/db/pkg which is not a directory should be preserved.
Note: even if you do delete subdirs that are actually still in use, this
shouldn't be a huge disaster. The only data still in those directories
will be portmaster's cache of distfile info (which it can cope without:
it uses it to efficiently identify old distfiles that can themselves be
tidied up) and flag files like +IGNOREME which you will want to
regenerate before you next do a ports update.
Cheers,
Matthew
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