Deleting Packages
Christian Hiris
4711 at chello.at
Wed Dec 1 23:44:55 PST 2004
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:21, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All'
> > directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I
> > wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I clean out the
> > '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> Check the manpage for portsclean(1), if it's on your system.
AFAIK portsclean requires that the sysutils/portupgrade port has been
installed.
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