Time to clear out the distfiles

It’s time to clear old distfiles. Based on Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles, I did the following on the aws-1-ingress01 jail. In short: fetch index list DISTFILES used by index remove DISTFILES not used by index The commands: root@freshports:/usr/ports # make fetchindex /usr/bin/env fetch -am -o /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz https://download.FreeBSD.org/ports/index/INDEX-14.xz /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz 1864

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Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles

FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB.

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When a port on a branch is deleted, FreshPorts tried, and fails, to refresh it

The original problem was explained and fixed however it seems to have resurfaced. Either that, or it was not fixed at all. In short: FreshPorts sees the first commit for a port on a branch the commit is deleting that port FreshPorts detects that the port has been deleted It forgets, somehow, that the port

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vuxml processing broken – files have grown too much

On November 19 2024, these errors appeared on every FreshPorts node: That’s my clue to go look closer as to why the processing failed. This processing is related to the security/vuxml port which documents known vulnerabilities within the FreeBSD ports tree and operating system. This tool helps system administrators identify and patch known problems. The

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