removing distfiles?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu May 28 11:24:35 UTC 2009


On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:49:12 +0200
Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
> >
> > Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those
> > > distfiles that do not belong to installed ports.
> >
> > I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called
> > distviper in bsdadminscripts which supports both of distclean's
> > modes without the ruby dependence.
> 
> What ruby dependence in portmaster? He said portMASTER not
> portUPGRADE.

I wrote: "supports both of distclean's modes without the ruby
dependence". 

Portmaster only supports one of the modes, distclean has a ruby
dependence.


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