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TIP: Cleanup after your ports

Posted by Jason on Thursday March 15, @12:31AM
from the Prune-Your-Tree dept.
If you use the ports tree to install applications, you should do a make clean after you install an application.

Why? Because when you install a port, it creates a work directory that contains the expanded source code as well as the compiled binaries (it can take up quite a lot of hard disk space). Doing a make clean removes it.

To perform this task, you need to be in the application directory. You can install a port and cleanup all in one command. Let's use bash for example.

login: root
password: *******

# cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2
# make install && make clean

(note: this would download, compile, install bash and remove the temporary files that were used for the install)

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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by NewBee on Friday May 25, @07:47PM

you can even do: # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 # make install clean

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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by geektron on Saturday July 21, @06:32PM

unless there are dependencies. 'make install clean' doesn't catch them. is 'make depend install clean' a valid make target?

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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by NewBee on Friday May 25, @07:49PM

you can even do:
# cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2
# make install clean

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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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Re: TIP: Cleanup after your ports
by Jason on Monday April 29, @10:09PM

You can also remove the downloaded tarball(s) from your /usr/ports/distfiles directory with the command:

make distclean

A complete install and cleanup could be done with this command:

make install clean distclean

This would install the program, remove the extracted tarball working directory, and remove the tarball itself.

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