A question about updating src & ports

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:44:20AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> from my own experience I left the path of "portsnap" and stay with svn alone. portsnap
> tends to "flood" the /var filesystem with a tremendous number of files over time. Each
> time you issue "portsnap fetch update", a file appears in /var/portsnap - it could be
> that the files appear in /var/db, I can't remember. Deleting them with "rm -rf *" leaves
> me then with an error from "rm": the argument line is to long due to the number of files.
> Therefore, I switched to svn.
> 
> Well, svn itself is pumping up /usr/ports/.svn where it keeps all logs. Depending on the
> frequency of updates it grows. I do the same for /usr/src and by the time of fetching
> almost every day several times a day updates, the folder .svn is as large
> as /usr/src itself in its pristine state when fetched initially. For
> long-haul/long-running systems I'm concerned about the flood of data coming in and

'svn cleanup .' will reduce the size of .svn/ by deleting old copies of pristine
files that are no longer needed.

-Ben