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Subject: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?
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On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the ports 
on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled over 
time. I was wondering if there is not an elegant, sophisticated way 
cleaning up those files not needed anymore. Please shed light onto my 
darkness ...

Regards,

O. Hartmann