Add an option for `port reclaim` to clean up old log files

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

On my system, /opt/local/var/macports/logs currently takes up 61.4MB of space. Some of the logs in there don't get cleaned up by sudo port -udc clean --all all. Would it be possible to have port reclaim handle this?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Kinda related: I wonder if it'd be possible to purge old unused entries from the registry, too? Some of the stuff under /opt/local/var/macports/registry is also taking up a lot of room...

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

sudo port clean all should remove logfiles for all known ports. Unknown ports (for example ports that have been deleted) are unknown to MacPorts so it can't do anything about them.

I was not aware that the registry would ever contain anything that was unused. What's an example of that?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to ryandesign:

sudo port clean all should remove logfiles for all known ports. Unknown ports (for example ports that have been deleted) are unknown to MacPorts so it can't do anything about them.

I mean, it can still see that the files are there, though, so can't it just clean them up anyways, without having to know their ports?

I was not aware that the registry would ever contain anything that was unused. What's an example of that?

I'm just looking at directories under /opt/local/var/macports/registry/portfiles, and it's got stuff like ports from old perl versions that no longer exist like perl5.24 in there; is there any reason to keep things like that?