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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:05:09 -0500
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Subject:   Re: Ports Clean
Message-ID:  <200707131305.12565.josh@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <004601c7c56f$9d08f480$6501a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <004601c7c56f$9d08f480$6501a8c0@GRANT>

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On Friday 13 July 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My ports collection on some of the servers is wasting alot of
> space.
>
> What would be the best method to 'cleanout' the ports dir without
> adversly affecting the operation of the rest of the server?
>
> All of the servers are live production servers.
>
> -Grant

There are a few possibilities.

1) cd to each installed ports dir and do a make clean
2) do the same but a make distclean
3) rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work
4) rm -rf /usr/ports and recvsup the tree

=2D-=20
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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