rough method of cleaning the ports tree

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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>> Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>> after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I
>>> thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after
>>> the compilation is finished.
>>>
>>> This should be much faster and also should do some kind o
>>> defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree
>>> will still be very well organised after some months.
>>>
>>> What does the list think of this method?
>> Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a "make
>> distclean" in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be
>> retained (also you might want to consider keeping a local cvs
>> repository if this is an issue)
> 
> That's a good idea too.
> But, it might not do enough.  So, still consider moving /usr/ports.
> 
it does what I really want. I do not have a space problem. I simply want 
to get rid of the stuff which is not really needed.

A make clean takes to long.

Erich