Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. Your better bet is to move your /usr/ports to your largest

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:34:24AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a make distclean in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be retained (also you might want to consider keeping a local cvs repository if this is an

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:34:24AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Even though it will take quite a bit longer you should just do a make distclean in /usr/ports that way anything you hand modified will be retained (also you

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: Remove all the temporary work files, and remove all distribution files that are not current with the ports' Makefiles: # portsclean -CD Requires the portupgrade port. In

rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and also should do some kind o defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and also should do some kind

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread Brian
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and

RE: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread Brent Jones
after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. I, like many, just use the portsclean utility to periodically tidy things up, or after manual ports builds if you forget to do

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: There are at least two better ways of doing this that will take less time and not put unnecessary load on the CVS servers. this was the main reason for asking. If all would do it, CVSup would be of no help at all.

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and also should do some kind o defragmentation. I