port -u upgrade outdated

[Paul Phillips]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:54:43AM +0200, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>  there is still a minor problem : waste of disk space
>  since each old version remains on the disk, whereas they are completely 
>  useless :-/
> 
>  do you see what i mean ?

I deal with this by running this inelegant alias once in a while:

  alias portclean="sudo port installed|grep -v active|grep -v
  following|xargs -L 1 sudo port -f uninstall"

It uninstalls all inactive ports.  Don't use it if that's not what you want.

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