Re: one liner to clean up your /usr/ports/distfiles

From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry_at_atlantis.dp.ua>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:59:57 +0300 (EEST)
Hello!

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, MonkeyBrains wrote:
> Ever notice your /usr/ports/distfiles bloats after several years of updating 
> the same box?
> You  know those 5 year old drives are about to fail, but, if you want to 
> clean them up a bit, I like this:
>
> cd /usr/ports/distfiles
> perl -e 'while (<*>) { chomp(); $p = $_; $p =~ s/\-\d+\..*// or next; unlink 
> $X if $X =~ /^$p/; $X = $_;}'
>
> Removes the lower version number of 'double' source files, like these:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1282627 Sep 12  2005 tiff-3.7.4.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1336295 Mar 23 07:15 tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz

  1. FreeBSD-ports_at_freebsd.org list suits better for such a letter.

  2. Your approach is not correct, because there are many ports which _do_
     refer different versions of the same product. Just now:

     Port name	Distfiles
     lang/gcc33	gcc-core-3.3.6.tar.bz2 ...
     lang/gcc34	gcc-core-3.4.6.tar.bz2 ...
     lang/gcc40	gcc-core-4.0-20060622.tar.bz2 ...
     lang/gcc41	gcc-core-4.1-20060623.tar.bz2 ...

   For the _correct_ approach, see, e.g.,

 	portsclean -D

which comes with the port sysutils/portupgrade.

> Rudy

Sincerely, Dmitry
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Received on Fri Jun 30 2006 - 07:00:06 UTC

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