Ports Dir

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:02:02AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> Can one run 
> 
> 'make clean'
> 
> in the /usr/ports directory in the hope of reducing disk space?
> 
> -Grant

Yes, you can, but it will take significant amount of time. Better
approach would be using portsclean (it's in portupgrade package) - you
can clean stale `work' dirs, unreferenced distfiles, etc. with it. And
to just clean stale `work' dirs you can use something like `rm -rf
/usr/ports/*/*/work'.


HTH,
Yuri
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