Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:52:48 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak.com> Subject: Re: How to run massive portmaster update without repeated interruptions? : correction Message-ID: <8B.79.23131.0FEAB805@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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On 27 October 2012 12:21, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > When updating many ports with portmaster, I get frequent interruptions with a prompt such as > ===>>> Delete gstreamer-0.10.35.tar.bz2? y/n [n] >How do I avoid this inefficiency? I don't see any way to say "yes, and please don't ask again!" > My /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc is > MAKE_PACKAGE=gopt > SAVE_SHARED=wopt > PM_LOG=/var/log/portm.log > NO_BACKUP=Bopt >I don't remember this ever happening when I used portupgrade. > Tom Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak.com> responded: > What it is asking you is permission to delete old distfiles. You have > two options to add to your portmaster.rc: > ALWAYS_SCRUB_DISTFILES=dopt > To always remove them without asking, or > DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt > To never delete them. Your distfiles directory will quickly get > massive if you don't do something about stale distfiles. I saw that in 'man portmaster' and /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc.sample , but I thought the files I was prompted for on deletion were the built packages rather than the distfiles. Examining /usr/packages/All and /BETA1/usr/ports/distfiles showed me that those files in question were outdated distfiles. So I added DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt to /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc in another virtual terminal when I was prompted on deletion. This had no effect on the current paused portmaster run but will hopefully work on subsequent portmaster runs. Wrong! I typed the wrong thing here, what I added to /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc was ALWAYS_SCRUB_DISTFILES=dopt Keeping stale distfiles is bad cyber housekeeping and leaves a lot of useless freight. Tom
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