Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:29 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Dominic Fandrey <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree Message-ID: <4769C62D.7050704@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <4769561A.3060908@gmx.de> References: <47688E99.4050802@pacific.net.sg> <4769561A.3060908@gmx.de>
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Hi, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought >> of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the >> compilation is finished. >> >> This should be much faster and also should do some kind o >> defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree will >> still be very well organised after some months. >> >> What does the list think of this method? >> >> Erich > > It's a good start, but to keep it clean you should set WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj > or something similar in your make.conf. This way you can just wipe /usr/obj > when uncleaned builds fill up too much disk space. this is what I will do. Plus not cleaning depending ports to speed up a bit the build process. Erich
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