On Oct 29, 2007, at 00:15, William Davis wrote:
On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:58 AM, Tobias Weisserth wrote:
I have a very basic question that I couldn't answer for myself by
looking at the port manpage or by searching the macports website.
My install base is cluttered by many inactive versions of ports
that I cannot uninstall without running in dependency problems.
For example, this is a list of all the ports that I have installed:
The following ports are currently installed:
a2ps @4.13b_3 (active)
aalib @1.4rc5_2 (active)
apr @1.2.11_0 (active)
apr @1.2.8_0
apr @1.2.9_0
[snip]
How do I get rid of inactive, duplicate versions of ports that I
have installed without hitting the dependency wall?
For example, I have numerous versions of GTK installed:
gtk2 @2.10.13_0
gtk2 @2.10.14_0
gtk2 @2.12.0_0
gtk2 @2.12.1_0 (active)
Though I should only need the latest which is active.
A "sudo port uninstall inactive" doesn't do the job. I have the
feeling that macports is adding stuff to my system with every
upgrade without getting rid of the old stuff and eating away at my
hard drive space. What's the best way to solve this problem?
thanks for your help,
Tobias W.
wont sudo port -df uninstall inactive do it?
Yes. No need for the -d part either.
in the future instead of doing sudo port install foo
why dont you use
sudo port -duf foo
which will uninstall the old version of foo,
but -warning- Im new here myself. :)
Presumably you meant
sudo port -duf upgrade foo
but use of -f is not recommended if you don't also use -n. Otherwise
you'll very likely get all the port's dependencies forcibly upgraded
as well, quite possibly multiple times, whether or not they needed
it. See:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12989
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