how to delete deactivated ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 07:06, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>     Charlse> I have a shell script that I run when I go to bed called
>     Charlse> good-night and part of it that pertains to Macports  
> goes like
>     Charlse> this:
>
>     ...
>
>     Charlse> Your thoughts please.
>
> My only thought would be to wrap the lines suitably:
>
>     #!/opt/local/bin/bash
>
>     cd "~/base/" \
>     && /opt/local/bin/svn update \
>     && PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin ./configure --enable- 
> readline \
>     && /usr/bin/make \
>     && /opt/local/bin/sudo /usr/bin/make install \
>     && /usr/bin/make clean \
>     && /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate \
>     && /opt/local/bin/port -fvdRnu upgrade outdated \
>     && /opt/local/bin/port -fvdR clean --all installed \
>     && /opt/local/bin/port -fvdR uninstall inactive \
>     && /opt/local/bin/port -fvdR clean --all uninstalled
>
> Now that I can read what you wrote ;-)

I wish you wouldn't indiscriminately use the -f (force) flag all the  
time. If it were intended to be used all the time it would have been  
made the default. In particular it should only be needed for "port -f  
uninstall inactive". It should not be needed for clean, and the only  
times it would be needed for upgrade are in unusual situations, which  
you would probably want to handle by hand individually rather than  
automate.