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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by Clayton Tucker on Wednesday June 27, @09:14PM

I have already installed various ports on my FBSD box, and forgotten to clean up after the install. My question is whether the following will work or if there's some issue I'm not aware of and I should never do this on pain of killing my system:
# cd /usr/ports
# make clean
Will this have the effect I expect (traverse the directory tree under /usr/ports, cleaning up old work directories for everything I've ever installed) and no side effects? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by Jason on Thursday June 28, @11:00PM

Yes. This will work, but it will take some time as it will perform a 'make clean' on every port in your ports tree.

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