portsnap temporary files

[olli hauer]

On 2017-01-06 20:51, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Is there some reason why portsnap cannot clean up /var/db/portsnap/files?  
> I've just had to remove a zillion of them, a bunch at a time because "rm" 
> choked on the arg list.
> 
> Perhaps a "portsnap clean" command?  I'm surprised that there isn't one.
> 

Why?

As soon you run "portsnap fetch" old files in this directory are purged!
If you look into /var/db/portsnap/INDEX you can see the mapping of the files

I'm running portsnap on one system since portsnap was introduced and never had issues with cleanups.

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olli