Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:48:40 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: mark@grondar.za, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, root@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too much cruft Message-ID: <199611191848.MAA04795@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611191752.SAA03436@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Nov 19, 96 06:52:39 pm
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> > Hi Walnut Creek folk, Jordan(?), Satoshi(?) > > > > > > I have noticed an _enormous_ amount of wasted space in the master > > site's distribution/ directory. It seems that as ports get upgraded, > > many out-of-date tarballs do not get nuked. I created this directory > > on my machine by doin a "make fetch" in /usr/ports, but internat's > > is a mirror of the dir on ftp.freebsd.org. This latter dir is nearly > > 200MB larger that mine! > > > > Could someone please clean this out? > > I second this. I tried to save a full distribution on a cdrom, and I > couldnt because all the out-of-date files in distfiles overflowed the > available space by far. Would it be possible to put distfiles in a per-version location? i.e. distfiles that were shipped with ports-2.1 should go in distfiles-2.1, etc. This will help the namespace collision problems, also. ... JG
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