On 02/10/2012 12:38, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ 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 outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports.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 out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed 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.
I just committed this: http://git.io/G2qIIg Which makes the patch compatible with portmaster-3.14 and also now makes portmaster remove superfluous subdirectories of $PKG_DBDIR when removing any packages. This should keep $PKG_DBDIR reasonably tidy going forwards, but it won't clean up all of the existing problem subdirs. For that you'll need a one-off job to clean up as described above. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: [email protected] Kent, CT11 9PW
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