Try to delete files

[David Kelly]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:21 am, Nigel Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hi, in my years of using freebsd i have collected alot of distfiles
> in the ports tree and i want to free up some space on my harddrive
> and i was wondering is there a command to delete files in the
> distfiles folder that are less than the year 2000?
>
> Or maybe there is a program that deletes all the older releases in
> the distfiles? if someone could help i would be gratefully

Install /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade

Then "portsclean -CD" to remove "work" files from /usr/ports/ and to 
remove all non-referenced files in /usr/ports/distfiles/

Its not safe to delete distfiles older than 2000 because a very large 
number of current distfiles are much older than that. Use "ls -lt" to 
see for yourself after having cleaned up with portsclean.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at hiwaay.net
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