Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:08:04 +0100 From: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting ports distfiles Message-ID: <20141117000804.30baab27@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> In-Reply-To: <20141116225501.GA52979@ozzmosis.com> References: <20141116232937.657463ce@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> <20141116225501.GA52979@ozzmosis.com>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:55:01 +1100 andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt (pvoigt@uos.de) > wrote: > > > I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. > > My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all > > files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. > > > > # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* > > > > I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. > > Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a > port. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks for your confirmation. I would like to clean up before I am going to rebuild all installed ports after the upgrade to 10.1-RELEASE. Regards, Peter
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