Pruning the Ports Tree

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Graham North wrote:

> Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later.
>
> I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree 
> update using CVSUP.  This generates several questions. 1) I 
> took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the 
> "Head" of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I 
> really want to do that?  Does it matter for a Ports only 
> updating?
It is recommended to use the appropriate kernel and base system 
with your ports. Things might work the way you did it, or 
(probably) not.

2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of 
> files.  My hard drive is not very big - it is down to a few 
> hundred inodes (file handles) within the usr directory.  Can I 
> prune the tree on my hard drive without compromising future 
> updates?  If it helps, my machine is not using X only command 
> mode so there are lots of Ports that will never be made.
For further advices it would be helpful to know how big your hd 
is and how much diskspace is used by your ports tree.
You can check the latter by
# du -h -d 1
(see # man du)

Regards,

Uli.

> Thanks for any help that can be offered.
>
> Graham/
>
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