Re: selfbuild packages repository
Quoting Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jonathan Horne wrote: lately, ive been exclusively doing 'make package-recursive' and 'portupgrade -apP', and have thus collected quite a lot of packages over the past 6 months (which use to keep multiple systems updated). on my NFS server, my /usr/ports/packages/All directory has built up many incrementing versions of the same packages. is there a way to keep the ./All directory culled back match whatever is in ./Latest? im not a programmer and am about as novice as you can get when it comes to shell scripting, but im seeing somethign that could compare ./Latest with ./All, and anything that is linked from Latest to All would be kept, and anything that no longer has a symlink, would be purged. can anyone help me out with a nice way of doing this? I think that's what portsclean -P is all about. -- Regards, Doug perfect!! i knew there had to be an easy way, and im not surprised to find out that portsclean takes care of the job. funny, that ive been using -C and -D forever. :) cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: selfbuild packages repository
Jonathan Horne wrote: lately, ive been exclusively doing 'make package-recursive' and 'portupgrade -apP', and have thus collected quite a lot of packages over the past 6 months (which use to keep multiple systems updated). on my NFS server, my /usr/ports/packages/All directory has built up many incrementing versions of the same packages. is there a way to keep the ./All directory culled back match whatever is in ./Latest? im not a programmer and am about as novice as you can get when it comes to shell scripting, but im seeing somethign that could compare ./Latest with ./All, and anything that is linked from Latest to All would be kept, and anything that no longer has a symlink, would be purged. can anyone help me out with a nice way of doing this? I think that's what portsclean -P is all about. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
selfbuild packages repository
lately, ive been exclusively doing 'make package-recursive' and 'portupgrade -apP', and have thus collected quite a lot of packages over the past 6 months (which use to keep multiple systems updated). on my NFS server, my /usr/ports/packages/All directory has built up many incrementing versions of the same packages. is there a way to keep the ./All directory culled back match whatever is in ./Latest? im not a programmer and am about as novice as you can get when it comes to shell scripting, but im seeing somethign that could compare ./Latest with ./All, and anything that is linked from Latest to All would be kept, and anything that no longer has a symlink, would be purged. can anyone help me out with a nice way of doing this? -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
