From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 14:28:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5926616A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from munk.nu (mail.munk.nu [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEAA43D2F for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1ApESA-000KvN-Ll; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:28:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:28:02 +0000 From: Jez Hancock To: Jeff Elkins Message-ID: <20040206222802.GB72712@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Elkins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200402061721.22349.bsd@elkins.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402061721.22349.bsd@elkins.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Jez Hancock cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:28:18 -0000 On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance > in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it. :P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging