Port help

Mark Sergeant msergeant at snsonline.net
Mon Sep 26 16:58:30 PDT 2005


On 27/09/2005, at 9:53 AM, UniX wrote:

> Hello everyone, currently in my /usr/ slice i have over 6 gigs in  
> there, most of it seems to be ports since i update so regularly. I  
> know i should do a make install clean before and after installing/ 
> upgrading a package but i believe portupgrade does that by default.  
> What i wanted to know what is there a command that can clean out  
> old packages and libs that are no longer being used anymore in /usr/ 
> ports/distfiles? instead of me erasing packages one by one? Im have  
> well over 400 packages now. Thank you very much in advance
>

portsclean -CDD which is part of the portupgrade utility (/usr/ports/ 
sysutils/portupgrade).

Cheers,

Mark



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