What’s the best way to auto clean distfiles after using make/portupgrade in FreeBSD

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I'm playing with a FreeBSD installation inside a Virtualbox vm, and I want to keep the size of the image relatively small. How can I configure FreeBSD to clean distfiles after installing a port (using make, portupgrade, etc)?

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Sequentially:

portmaster --check-depends 
portmaster --check-port-dbdir 
portmaster -s 
portmaster -y --clean-distfiles

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You are very close. Try this instead:

make all-depends-list

That will recurse through all dependencies and print them for you. To test different build scenarios and how they affect the dependency list, try things like:

make NOPORTDOCS=yes NOPORTEXAMPLES=yes all-depends-list

make WITHOUT_X11=yes all-depends-list

Here is the full set of dependency print targets:

all-depends-list
build-depends-list
run-depends-list
package-depends-list
pretty-print-build-depends-list
pretty-print-run-depends-list

Cheers, Greg

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