Date: 07 Aug 2001 14:43:59 -0700 From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/29517: Handbook missing fast method of cleaning ports. Message-ID: <zju1zjv940.1zj@localhost.localdomain>
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>Number: 29517
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook missing fast method of cleaning ports.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 07 14:50:05 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gary W. Swearingen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:
The handbook gives what it calls the "best" way to clean ports,
which, when I tried it, took several hours on fast hardware.
The handbook is missing the faster method used by many.
================
>How-To-Repeat:
<code/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)>
================
>Fix:
Apply the following PR/patch. I've changed "best" to "surest"
and added the alternative method and an introductory paragraph.
I got the method off comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and I must admit
to having not tested it
patch -d /*/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/tbd/tbd/tbd < this-PR
<how to correct or work around the problem, if known (multiple lines)>
*** /tmp/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 7 11:01:34 2001
--- ports/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 7 11:19:19 2001
***************
*** 1120,1126 ****
<answer>
<para>Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly
certain you will not need the source again, there is no
! point in keeping it hanging around. The best way to do
this is:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports</userinput>
--- 1120,1126 ----
<answer>
<para>Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly
certain you will not need the source again, there is no
! point in keeping it hanging around. The surest way to do
this is:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports</userinput>
***************
*** 1129,1134 ****
--- 1129,1142 ----
<para>which will go through all the ports subdirectories and
delete everything except the skeletons for each
port.</para>
+
+ <para>A much faster way to do most (if not all) of the same
+ thing is this:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>
+ find /usr/ports -depth -name work -exec rm -rf {} \;</userinput>
+ </screen>
+
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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