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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:52:23 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cleaning up of /usr/ports/distfiles
Message-ID:  <3C597647.3B3B542A@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020131164446.A97807@draenor.org>

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Marc Silver wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Redirecting this mail here as per Kris Kennaway's suggestion...  :)
> 
> While looking for a perl substitute for
> /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade/, I came across Lukas Ertl's
> portupgrade.pl (http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/portsupgrade.html) - One
> feature however that it didn't have was the ability to remove old
> distfiles.
> 
> I sat down and quickly hacked together a small script to clean up
> old/unused files from /usr/ports/distfiles.  It's probably not the
> prettiest code any of you have ever seen, but I've used it with great
> success so far.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is of any use to anyone, but I'd certainly like any
> feedback regarding this script, and perhaps it can help the FreeBSD
> community?  Please CC me with flames/comments/suggestions/
> the_right_place_to_send_this?? as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Check /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/distclean.sh

-Maxim

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