From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 03:42:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C22E16A421 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:42:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brent.jones@otago.ac.nz) Received: from mailhub2.otago.ac.nz (mailhub2.otago.ac.nz [139.80.64.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC0113C459 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:42:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brent.jones@otago.ac.nz) Received: from its-ex-p04.registry.otago.ac.nz (its-ex-p04.registry.otago.ac.nz [10.4.15.133]) by mailhub2.otago.ac.nz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBJ3gbms024139; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:37 +1300 Received: from its-ex-p05.registry.otago.ac.nz ([10.4.15.134]) by its-ex-p04.registry.otago.ac.nz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:37 +1300 Received: from MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz ([10.4.15.129]) by its-ex-p05.registry.otago.ac.nz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:36 +1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:42:36 +1300 Message-ID: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F063AC8DE@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <47688E99.4050802@pacific.net.sg> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: rough method of cleaning the ports tree Thread-Index: AchB7q4tgFnySb5FT+Gu43UbnWn9jAAAc2Fw References: <47688E99.4050802@pacific.net.sg> From: "Brent Jones" To: "Erich Dollansky" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2007 03:42:37.0003 (UTC) FILETIME=[327CE9B0:01C841F1] X-PMX-Version: 5.4.0.320885, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.2.313940, Antispam-Data: 2007.12.18.192138 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='BODY_SIZE_400_499 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __IMS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: Subject: RE: rough method of cleaning the ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:42:40 -0000 =20 > after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling,=20 > I thought=20 > of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the=20 > compilation is finished. I, like many, just use the "portsclean" utility to periodically tidy things up, or after manual ports builds if you forget to do a "make clean". Doing this should keep things in check and keep your ports tree from growing. Cheers, Brent