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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:50:16 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
Cc:        Chris H <bsd-lists@1command.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?
Message-ID:  <0E80C8BC-2CE5-4D52-9A42-326481DA343E@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20130626202332.GB80235@icarus.home.lan>
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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.

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