removing distfiles?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu May 28 12:03:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:30 +0100
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.


Sorry, that should have been portsclean not distclean.


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