Removing Port Directories

Mikhail Goriachev mikhailg at webanoide.org
Sun Jun 4 11:30:43 PDT 2006


Jacob Jennings wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to remove unwanted port directories
> such as /usr/ports/biology, /usr/ports/astro, etc. without the system
> coughing a hairball, or could I just manually delete them with a "rm
> -fR"?


I guess you could. Make sure you don't re-fetch them when you cvsup port
collection. For more info consult:

/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile


You could also investigate /usr/ports/misc/porteasy


Cheers,
Mikhail.


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