On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten <[email protected]> wrote: > How much of /opt/local/var/macports can be cleaned up? > > Kleiman-ibook:macports michael$ du -s * > 29716 build > 497644 distfiles > 0 logs > 0 packages > 12 port-help.tcl > 4540 receipts > 0 registry > 2241476 software > 92544 sources > > That's over 2 gig in software, and half a gig in distfiles. >
You can use "port clean" to get rid of some stuff. Read the man page for details. For instance, "port clean --all installed" will get rid of a bunch of stuff, including distfiles. But the "software" you presumably want to keep, since those are the ports you installed! The active ones are hardlinked into /opt/local (not using more space). Read more in the guide (http://guide.macports.org). You may want to also uninstall inactive ports ("port uninstall inactive") and you can automatically get rid of the old versions when you upgrade by using "port upgrade -u outdated". There's a bunch of stuff on this in the list archives too... you could search for it for some more discussion. Scott _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
