Dave Horsfall wrote:
(Many responses)
I note that no-one has answered the question which caused me to post the
message in the first place viz: why weren't the files being removed
automatically? Everyone appears to have missed this point...
I didn't and some of the answers are helpful even if not answering the
original.
"portsnap fetch" - I wasn't aware it removed the old files at the
beginning, but will take the other poster's word for that (especially
after checking the remaining few remaining systems I have on FreeBSD
would seem to indicate it as a fact)... however "rm -r /var/db/portsnap
&& portsnap fetch" is an easy way to clean everything up... if you think
it's not working correctly.
The index file you will have is: /var/db/portsnap/INDEX
It is possible this was deleted/replaced at some time thereby losing the
mapping of the files... perhaps a working directory failure (out of
space etc).. but that should be fixed at every successful fetch as it
finishes with the following lines of code:
# Move files into their proper locations
rm -f tag INDEX tINDEX
rm -rf files
mv tag.new tag
mv tINDEX.new tINDEX
mv INDEX.new INDEX
mv snap/ files/
('snap' being created new everytime)..
The other part you might not be considering is that the files have to be
cleaned up on the portsnap server (snapshot builder) itself... but again
looking at code it should 'just work' - unless someone has tampered with
it since I downloaded it all and setup my own server...
Regards,
Michelle
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