Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:02:00 +0200 From: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing distfiles? Message-ID: <20090528000200.780502cf@bobcat.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090527224351.1e94029b@bobcat.edu> <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Thanks, quite some GB I could clean out on my workstation running on a good(?) old(!) 20GB harddisk.. herb langhans On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: > > Hi Daemons, > > a short question: > > > > I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? > > Sure. > > > Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. > > They won't. But they'll have to re-download relevent ones if you decide > to rebuild a port. > > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those distfiles > that do not belong to installed ports. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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