Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:02:46 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up? Message-ID: <17849.28502.463390.896995@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0701251732t6925ad88xb47fd8664fffdc5a@mail.gmail.com> References: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20070125194925.70872a21.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <d7195cff0701251732t6925ad88xb47fd8664fffdc5a@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com writes: > > > Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like > > > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a > > > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by > > > another port? > > > > sysutils/pkg_cutleaves > > portupgrade includes pkg_deinstall, which has switch > to recursively remove all dependancies which are no > longer used by any other pkg/port, which is a way to > head this sort of thing off at the pass. I use portupgrade. I've never used pkg_deinstall, but given that portupgrade gets ... confused ... occasionally I look suspiciously at anything that promises clean upward recursion. Robert Huff
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