A handy utility (at least for me)

[Naram Qashat]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv at wjv.com>
To: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me)


> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:00 freebsd-hackers-request at freebsd.org
> saw "Error reading FAT table? Try SKINNY table?" And promptly
> said:
>
> > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:18:58 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>
> > Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me)
>
> > Rick C. Petty wrote:
>
> >  > Mario Lobo wrote:
>
> >  > > My /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20
> >  > > was just from the 'work' directories !
>
> > You should type "make clean" more often.  ;-)
>
> And to ensure that 'make clean' in the /usr/ports directory runs
> much faster, be sure to add   NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES in your
> /etc/make.conf.
>
> After you run that on the entire tree besure to comment it out so
> that when you run   make clean   inside a port you clean all the
> dependancies too.

You could always just do make NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes clean from /usr/ports and
then you wouldn't need to worry about setting it in your /etc/make.conf.

>
> Bill
>
> -- 
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
>
Naram Qashat
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