Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:52:44 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>, Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped... Message-ID: <1248292364.1479.16.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <20090722193033.GA83848@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <1248027417.14210.110.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <58F0204B-ECE6-479A-AAC2-7868E71ABB43@exscape.org> <367b2c980907200729s57eafbbfw83c8ae5a94f41ffc@mail.gmail.com> <4A6628F0.6080802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090721215201.GA61999@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <1248277420.8644.70.camel@localhost> <20090722193033.GA83848@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 15:30 -0400, David Schultz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > > В вт, 21/07/2009 в 14:52 -0700, Steve Kargl пишет: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:45:36PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > > > > > I have another box (of many) running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 with 2 GB > > > > RAM and a Athlon64 2,2GHz CPU having 800(!) ports installed. Can you > > > > imagine how long this box will be occupied by 'portupgrade -af'? I guess > > > > 'cherry-picking' is the only solution. > > > > > > How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used? > > > It would be better to get generate a complete list of your > > > installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove > > > all ports, and then selectively re-install ports that are > > > actually used. > > > > I've found that much faster and cleaner way is to just remove > > whole /usr/local (preserving /usr/local/etc), and /var/db/pkg > > > > and then just install required ports, such process goes much faster. > > Also it removes all unused ports. > > I do the same thing. I wish the ports system kept track of which > ports were installed explicitly by me, and which were only > dependencies. ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves does not quite do that, but IMHO is pretty close. I does not detect build-time dependencies, though. > Then it would be possible to garbage collect ports > that are no longer needed. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Alexandre Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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