Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:41:47 -0700 From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <tim@typhoon.techvalley.ca> Cc: "Fong, Nicholas" <nfong@pigtail.net> Subject: Pruning the Ports Tree Message-ID: <002201c45111$801acb30$627ba8c0@phoenix>
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Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later. I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using CVSUP. This generates several questions. 1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the "Head" of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really want to do that? Does it matter for a Ports only updating? 2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of files. My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory. Can I prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future updates? If it helps, my machine is not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made. Thanks for any help that can be offered. Graham/help
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