/usr/ports & portupgrade when only using packages

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Wed Sep 5 11:55:19 PDT 2007


On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:34:56 Adam J Richardson wrote:

> Well, that's easy...
>
> # rm -R /usr/ports
>
> Saves you a load of disk space, too. The only downside is you get
> slightly older versions of software with packages.
>
> Oh, and don't use portsnap, it'll undo that "rm -R" for you. Using
> "portupgrade -PP" works perfectly well on those rare occasions when I
> want to install a package rather than a port.

I'm really interested in seeing the output of portupgrade -PP after 
rm -R /usr/ports && mkdir /usr/ports.

-- 
Mel

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