Cleaning /var/db/ports

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Wesley Shields wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:52:57AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Lars Stokholm wrote:
>>
>>> Apart from doing 'rm -r /var/db/ports/*' is there a way of  
>>> cleaning the
>>> folder of stale folders and files?
>>>
>>> I know it takes up no space and that I might aswell leave it  
>>> alone, but
>>> it'd be interesting to know. :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lars
>>
>> pkg_cutleaves -- an excellent Perl port that will help you out with  
>> that.
>
> Which, unfortunately won't clean up /var/db/ports.
>
> I'm not 100% certain but I think the only information stored in
> /var/db/ports are distfile recordings and options selections?  As  
> such,
> nothing overly important is recorded there and you might be OK to just
> blow it all away.  Of course I'd make a backup of it first just  
> incase I
> am wrong.
>
> -- WXS

Ah, didn't catch the ports part. My apologies.
-Garrett