Doug Barton wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Douglas Berry wrote: ... >> With respect to the --clean-* options, my earlier (a long time ago) >> test with --clean-distfiles showed that valid distfiles would be >> deleted if the corresponding port was not installed. I'd like to only >> delete them if they are no longer valid (similar to portsclean -D). > >The problem is that in order to accomplish that portmaster would have to >check every port in the tree. Assuming 22,000 ports, and that any given >port is equally likely to fall anywhere in the tree, on average you'd >have to search 11,000 ports for every distfile that is not related to a >port installed on that system. > >Now what I _could_ do is use the same technique I use in >--clean-distfiles (create a text file with the distfile information) but >instead of limiting it to installed ports, do all of them. I have never >even tested that to see how long it would take, but I suppose I could >take a look.
I also found it to be a problem that one didn't have the choice of keeping distfiles that belonged to uninstalled ports, but were not stale. Fortunately, besides 'portsclean -D' from ports-mgmt/portupgrade*, there is also sobomax@'s convenient shell script, ports/Tools/scripts/distclean.sh, which fills this niche and uses only base system utilities. b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
