Locating obsolete ports distfiles

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Mon Aug 22 04:41:49 GMT 2005


On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:36:47PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I currently have just over 8GB is /usr/ports/distfiles.  Some of these
> files are more than 10 years old and long obsolete.  Does anyone have
> any suggestions on how to identify which files are no longer referenced
> by current ports?

Try portsclean and the --distclean option.

portsclean is part of the portupgrade port.

Edwin

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