portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 27/06/2013, at 5:53, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> cd /usr/ports/whatever
> make install clean
> {lather rinse repeat until done}

The faster version of this is
find /usr/ports -maxdepth 3 -name work -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Simpler is to put..
WRKDIRPREFIX=/foo/bar
in /etc/make.conf

Then you can just rm -rf /foo/bar/work to delete all of the port build goop.

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