Ports Dir

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:19:51PM -0500, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 04/07/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>> Pablo Mora writes:
>>
>> >  > Can one run
>> >  >
>> >  > 'make clean'
>> >  >
>> >  > in the /usr/ports directory in the hope of reducing disk space?
>> >
>> >  portsclean -CDD
>>
>>         "portsclean" is part of the "portupgrade" port, not the base
>> system.  Not everyone has it installed, or wants to.
>>         To the original poster: yes, you can.  Mind you, I'm not sure
>> it's the most efficient way - since I have "portupgrade" installed,
>> I prefer portsclean.
>>
>
> Indeed.  If you set WRKDIRPREFIX you can merely
> rm -r $WRKDIRPREFIX/ports.  The distfiles can be
> a bit more difficult to deal with in a sane manner
> without some sort of add-on tool.
>
> -- 
> --

That tool lives in /usr/ports/Tools/scripts and is called distclean.sh,
I think :)


Yuri
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