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Subject: Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for
 large upgrade?
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On 27/06/2013, at 5:53, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> wrote:
> cd /usr/ports/whatever
> make install clean
> {lather rinse repeat until done}

The faster version of this is
find /usr/ports -maxdepth 3 -name work -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Simpler is to put..
WRKDIRPREFIX=/foo/bar
in /etc/make.conf

Then you can just rm -rf /foo/bar/work to delete all of the port build goop.

--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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