[ Matthew Seaman wrote on Tue 2.Oct'12 at 12:13:05 +0100 ] > At the moment, the only way to clear up is to manually remove the > outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports. You can work out what is > out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed > ports obtained by > > pkg info -aq > > Should only take a few minutes to write a small script to do that. > > Be careful not to trash local.sqlite, repo.sqlite or auditfile -- in > fact, anything in /var/db/pkg which is not a directory should be preserved. > > Note: even if you do delete subdirs that are actually still in use, this > shouldn't be a huge disaster. The only data still in those directories > will be portmaster's cache of distfile info (which it can cope without: > it uses it to efficiently identify old distfiles that can themselves be > tidied up) and flag files like +IGNOREME which you will want to > regenerate before you next do a ports update.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that for us. Very much appreciated. Best wishes, Jamie _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
