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Eugene Yarmash
Asked: 2012-07-12 02:13:52 +0800 CST

What's the best way to auto clean distfiles after using make/portupgrade in FreeBSD?

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I'm playing with a FreeBSD installation inside a Virtualbox vm, and I want to keep the size of the image relatively small. How can I configure FreeBSD to clean distfiles after installing a port (using make, portupgrade, etc)?

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4 Answers

  1. Sequentially:

    portmaster --check-depends 
portmaster --check-port-dbdir 
portmaster -s 
portmaster -y --clean-distfiles
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  2. How can I configure FreeBSD to clean distfiles after installing a port (using make, portupgrade, etc)?

    If "after installing a port", just use the distclean target:

    make install distclean

    This will clean the work directory and the distfile after installing.

    If you want to clean distfiles separately from installation, just run

    rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
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  3. If you're using portupgrade, you can use portsclean.

    portsclean -CDD

    ...will clean out the working directories of the ports tree and clean out the distfiles of any port that is not installed.

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  4. Best Answer

    There's more than one way to do it:

    • set DISTDIR in make.conf to /tmp/distfiles, or symlink /usr/ports/distfiles to /tmp/distfiles. /tmp will be cleared on the next reboot.
    • add this job to /etc/crontab: @reboot root rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
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