Cleaning up packages after cd /usr/ports && make

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:58:36 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:

> 
>  [ this is a ports@ question, cc'ed ]
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:31:55 +0100
> Sten Daniel Sørsdal <lists at wm-access.no> wrote:
> 
> > I managed to tell a coworker of mine to go into /usr/ports and and
> > type make on a production server. He let it run for 6 hours before
> > complaining.
> > 
> > Are there any ways to get a list of leaf packages or build a tree of
> > the dependencies? How do you do it?
> 
> sysutils/pkg_tree
> sysutils/pkg_cutleaves
> There are others.
> 
> > Are there any make.conf things that could prevent such a general
> > make order?
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR} == /usr/ports
> .error "Don't do make in /usr/ports"
> .endif
> 
> I don't know what it could break (at least make index)

It wlll break portupgrade too:

--- Begining building portsdb
Fetching the ports index ... "/etc/make.conf", line 154: "don't do make in /usr/ports"
failed to fetch INDEX!
Updating the ports index ... "/etc/make.conf", line 154: "don't do make in /usr/ports"
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error
--- Done bulding portsdb

 # ll /usr/ports/INDEX-6
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7936695 Jan 14 00:35 /usr/ports/INDEX-6

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