15 How to delete an unsupported FreeBSD branch

When an old branch goes out of support, there are some things to garbage-collect.

• Edit /var/portbuild/conf/server.conf with the following changes:

  • Delete old-branch from SRC_BRANCHES.

  • Delete SRC_BRANCH_old-branch_SUBDIR= whatever

• umount a/snap/src-old-branch/src;
  umount a/snap/src-old-branch;
  zfs destroy -r a/snap/src-old-branch
  

• You will probably find that the following files and symlinks in /var/portbuild/errorlogs/ can be removed:

  • Files named *-old_branch-failure.html

  • Files named buildlogs_*-old_branch-*-logs.txt

  • Symlinks named *-old_branch-previous*

  • Symlinks named *-old_branch-latest*