On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Graham North wrote:
It is recommended to use the appropriate kernel and base system with your ports. Things might work the way you did it, or (probably) not.Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later.
I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using CVSUP. This generates several questions. 1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the "Head" of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really want to do that? Does it matter for a Ports only updating?
2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of
files. My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory. Can I prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future updates? If it helps, my machine is not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made.For further advices it would be helpful to know how big your hd is and how much diskspace is used by your ports tree.
You can check the latter by
# du -h -d 1
(see # man du)
Regards,
Uli.
Thanks for any help that can be offered.
Graham/
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