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PORTSCLEAN(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		 PORTSCLEAN(1)

NAME
     portsclean — a tool to clean ports/packages garbage

SYNOPSIS
     portsclean [-hCDDiLnPPQQq]

DESCRIPTION
     portsclean is a tool to help users clean out the working directories of
     their ports tree, no longer referenced distfiles, outdated package files,
     and obsolete or orphaned shared libraries that were possibly left by
     pkg_deinstall(1) 's -P option.

OPTIONS
     The following command line arguments are supported:

     -h
     --help	    Show help and exit.

     -C
     --workclean    Clean out all the working directories of the ports tree.
		    (cf.  WRKDIRPREFIX)

     -D
     --distclean    Clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any
		    port in the ports tree.  Specified twice (i.e.  -DD),
		    clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any
		    port that is currently installed. (cf.  DISTDIR)

     -i
     --interactive  Turn on interactive mode.  The user is asked for approval
		    before each suggested file/directory is removed.

     -L
     --libclean	    Clean out old, duplicate and/or orphaned shared libraries.

		    portsclean first deletes duplicate shared libraries where
		    appropriate, then puts away old and orphaned shared
		    libaries to /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg updating symlinks
		    properly.  To keep binaries working, ldconfig(8) is run
		    after each library deletion or move.

		    portsclean is so wise you can safely run it without turn‐
		    ing -i on.	However, if you want to do further cleanup,
		    specify the flag to be asked on possibly unneeded
		    libraries too.

		    You can use the sysutils/libchk port to check which
		    library is linked with which binaries.

     -n
     --noexecute    Do not actually delete any files.

     -P
     --pkgclean	    Clean up outdated package tarballs and dead symlinks in
		    the packages directory. (cf.  PACKAGES) Specified twice
		    (i.e.  -PP), delete all the package tarballs in the direc‐
		    tory.

     -Q
     --quiet	    Do not write anything to stdout.  Specified twice (i.e.
		    -QQ), do not write anything to stderr either.  This is for
		    internal use.

     -q
     --noconfig	    Do not read the configuration file -
		    $PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf.

ENVIRONMENT
     PORTSDIR
     DISTDIR
     WRKDIRPREFIX
     PACKAGES	    portsclean detects these variables defined in the configu‐
		    ration file $PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf, /etc/make.conf or
		    environment variables to clean files properly.  See
		    portupgrade(1) for details of these variables.

     PKGTOOLS_CONF  Configuration file for the pkgtools suite.	Default is
		    “$PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf”.

FILES
     $PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf	Default location of the pkgtools configuration
				file.

SEE ALSO
     libchk(1), pkg_deinstall(1), pkgdb(1), pkgtools.conf(5), ports(7)

AUTHORS
     Akinori MUSHA ⟨knu@iDaemons.org⟩

FreeBSD				 June 13, 2006			       FreeBSD

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