On Jun 15, 2010, at 18:36, Scott Webster wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: >> However, I just noticed that macports seems to still leave around the >> distribution files. For example, I have qt4-mac installed, and a few old >> versions from prior updates. But I have a number of prior distributions, >> going back even further, and each one is ~100 meg. So just my >> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/qt4-mac directory is 1.5 gig! >> >> My question is whether there is an easy way to clean out all of the old >> distributions? I suppose I could just go and search through every one and >> rm any old ones that I don't want, but that seems like a bunch of extra work >> (and could it confuse macports?). >> Is the right way to go just to do: >> >> sudo port clean --all uninstalled > > Since in this case you have qt4-mac installed, I don't think the above > command will remove the dist files. So you could try "sudo port clean > --all installed" instead. But if you have dist files around from > ports that you have previously uninstalled then you might also need > your above command, or maybe the seemingly more comprehensive "sudo > port clean --all all". You might want to use the -f flag too for > ports that share the same distfile directory. This takes a while > though, and perhaps you don't have so many ports that you've > uninstalled. When you uninstall ports it says "---> Cleaning > portname" but I guess that probably only removes the work files and > not the dist files.
I do a lot of port testing, on a number of machines, even sometimes going back to older port versions, and I often work on slow network connections or offline, so I like to keep distfiles around. But not forever. Here's the script I run periodically that deletes distfiles older than a year; you can easily adjust this to delete distfiles sooner. Run the script with sudo so it has sufficient permission to delete the files.
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