Cleaning MacPorts from old (unused) ports versions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 28, 2015, at 12:36 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>>> 
>>> So, there were 4 (!) versions of grace installed! That should be remnants
>>> of old MacPorts installations. I suppose similar multiple versions must be
>>> present for a number of different ports.
>>> 
>>> My question is: is there a way to hunt and remove those older versions of
>>> ports? (preferably, some automatic way to remove them all, from all
>>> programs?)
>> 
>> 
>> Those are preserved old versions, from `port upgrade` --- so, if something
>> is broken for you in the new version, you can easily roll back.
>> 
>> `sudo port uninstall inactive` will clear them. If you decide you don't want
>> to keep them at all, use `sudo port -u upgrade outdated`.
> 
> This is true, but I agree that it would be great to have something like
>     sudo port uninstall --all grace
> 
> Otherwise one has to manually copy and paste every single version (if
> one wants to keep older versions for other ports except with the
> interactive version of the port command).

You can do that already:

sudo port uninstall installed and grace

(uninstalls ports named grace that are installed)

Or if you meant: uninstall only the inactive ones:

sudo port uninstall grace and inactive

(uninstalls ports named grace that are inactive)