Removing obsolete distfiles but keeping current ones

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 18, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I'd prefer a separate command to clean out old distfiles when asked.


% rm ${prefix}/var/distfiles_mirror.db
% rm ${prefix}/var/distfiles_mirror.db.lock
% port mirror installed
...
% portmirror
...

done!

I do think that this should probably be exposed as something that port  
can just do (removing the old dist on successful upgrade as an option,  
or have some simple way to say remove all distfiles except those that  
are current for installed ports, or both).

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