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Old 19th September 2008
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Default The location of Backup files from portupgrade

Hi all:
Every time when I portupgrade I see a message "Backing up the old version", and I think it waste my much of space and so I want to delete it and what is the PATH ?

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Haven't really looked into it, but I think that that backup is removed immediately when the portupgrade itself succeeds. It is just a backup for backing out of a failed portupgrade (reverting to the previously installed version).
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DutchDaemon is correct. Portupgrade creates a temporary backup package in case the newer version of the port fails to install.
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By the way, running portsclean -CDD from time to time will get rid of previously downloaded (but now upgraded) tarballs of your installed ports.
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Doesn't anyone read man pages:
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     PACKAGES	       Base directory where portupgrade creates packages.
		       Default is ``$PORTSDIR/packages''.
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Code:
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     --backup-packages	    Keep backup packages of the old versions.  These
			    are kept in a temporary directory.	See PKG_TMPDIR
			    and TMPDIR in the ENVIRONMENT section.
So, by default, the temp packages are stored under /tmp. If PACKAGES is set in the environment (via shell rc files, for instance), and you use -b, then the packages are left behind in the directory you specify.
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