A handy utility (at least for me)

Roman Kurakin rik at inse.ru
Sat Aug 26 23:37:19 UTC 2006


albi:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:12:52 +0400
> Roman Kurakin <rik at inse.ru> wrote:
>
>   
>> Rick C. Petty:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:19:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My  /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was
>>>> just from the 'work' directories !
>>>>
>>>> Removing them one by one was a pain so I wrote this little utility
>>>> to wipe them off.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I find that the following command works just fine for me:
>>>
>>> find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -delete
>>>   
>>>       
>> A bit rude, but also works
>>
>> cd /usr/ports && make clean
>>     
>
> guys... please use the official portsclean ! :)
>   
In most of cases, you not need it. Portupgrade will clean after itself ;-)

rik
> included in the sysutils/portupgrade
>
>  portsclean -h
> portsclean 2.0.1 (2006/06/13)
>
> usage: portsclean [-hCDDiLnPPQQq]
>
>     -h, --help         Show this message
>     -C, --workclean    Clean up working directories
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>
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