portsclean -D, doesn't remove obsolete distfiles

[Seeker]

# portsclean -D
Detecting unreferenced distfiles...
no unreferenced distfiles found.

# ll /usr/ports/distfiles/Mesa*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  nodump  321K Aug 18 20:16:01 2010 /usr/ports/distfiles/MesaGLUT-7.4.4.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  nodump  3.2M Aug 18 20:16:03 2010 /usr/ports/distfiles/MesaLib-7.4.4.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  -       4.9M Jun 17 20:19:00 2010 /usr/ports/distfiles/MesaLib-7.8.2.tar.bz2

As I know, MesaLib-7.4.4.tar.bz2, should be gone for good, but nada!

I tried:

# rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX-*.db

... Then rebuild of both those here ...

# portsclean -D
Detecting unreferenced distfiles...
no unreferenced distfiles found.

What a??

 

[G4]

Try portsclean -DD.

 

[Seeker]

Try portsclean -DD.

I'm not gona do it, as there are up to date distfiles, which are just not installed and would be erased by this command.

 

[wblock@]

Look up the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU switch.

 

[Seeker]

I added it to make.conf
Distfile is still here..., but then again, taking into account existance of WITHOUT_NOUVEAU, then this is not an error, at all.

 

[valuequest]

Just out of curiosity what references to the .gz and .bz2 files make it necessary to keep them in /usr/ports/distfiles after the packages are installed?

 

[wblock@]

It's not necessary to keep distfiles, just nice to have them there if you have to rebuild the port. The disk space used can be reclaimed by deleting /usr/ports/distfiles at any time, so it's not a big commitment.