Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:31:10 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup Message-ID: <20070712203110.07aa3baf@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200707121142.10689.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200707120846.26845.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070712105343.60251d12.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> <200707121142.10689.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:42:10 -0500 Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:53:43 Randy Pratt wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:46:26 -0500 > > > > Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > > > my packages dir is starting to have more than a few packages of > > > incrementing versions. example: > > > > > > [jhorne@athena All] $ ls kde-3* > > > kde-3.5.6_1.tbz kde-3.5.7.tbz > > > > > > is there a simple way to clean the packages directory, and only > > > keep the latest version of each package? > > > > I use "portsclean -P" to clean out /usr/ports/packages. Perhaps it > > is what you're looking for. > > > > Randy > > well this is my build server as well as my workstation, so i have > many packages that ive built that i require for my servers, that > might not be installed on my workstation. portsclean -P would > probably purge off a lot of things that i still need. It's only supposed to clean out-of-date packages.
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