Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Chris Pepper]

At 1:44 PM -0600 2003/08/31, Brett Glass wrote:
>At 12:37 PM 8/31/2003, Colin Percival wrote:
>
>>   In short, provided that you haven't rebuilt the world locally, if 
>>FreeBSD Update reports "No updates available", your system is 
>>definitely up to date.
>
>That's good to know, though it didn't solve the other problems I mentioned.
>
>Or a couple I just encountered. First, when I built cvsupdate as a port,
>I found that the commands "make clean" and "make distclean" removed the
>detritus left behind by creating cvsupdate itself, but did not nuke the
>junk that was left behind as the system built other ports on which that one
>depended. Going around and deleting everything manually (there was no
>automatic mechanism) was a chore.

Brett,

	Have you checked out portsclean (part of portupgrade)?

>      -C
>      --workclean    Clean out all the working directories of the ports tree.
>                     (cf.  WRKDIRPREFIX)
>
>      -D
>      --distclean    Clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any
>                     port in the ports tree.  Specified twice (i.e.  -DD),
>                     clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any
>                     port that is currently installed. (cf.  DISTDIR)


						Regards,


						Chris Pepper
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