portsnap temporary files

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Jan 6 21:05:16 UTC 2017


On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, olli hauer wrote:

> Why?

For the reason I stated; I had to remove hundreds of them by hand.

> As soon you run "portsnap fetch" old files in this directory are purged!

Not here they weren't...

> If you look into /var/db/portsnap/INDEX you can see the mapping of the 
> files

I don't have that file.

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

Hmmm...

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