From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 22:51:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FABF40B for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-3.serv.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (vm299.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de [131.173.16.215]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4DFB669 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-auth.serv.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (vm136.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de [131.173.16.11]) by mail-in-3.serv.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAGMTjOf027354 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:45 +0100 Received: from spock.drpetervoigt.private (p5DC4D859.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.196.216.89]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-auth.serv.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id sAGMThBG012897 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:44 +0100 Received: from kirk.drpetervoigt.private (kirk.drpetervoigt.private [192.168.1.60]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pvoigt) by spock.drpetervoigt.private (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E8211D15B0F for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:37 +0100 From: "Dr. Peter Voigt" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Deleting ports distfiles Message-ID: <20141116232937.657463ce@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> Organization: =?UTF-8?B?VW5pdmVyc2l0w6R0IE9zbmFicsO8Y2s=?= X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 6.0.0.2142326, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2014.11.16.221219 (Univ. Osnabrueck) X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report= TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_200_299 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, FROM_NAME_PHRASE 0, NO_URI_FOUND 0, RDNS_POOLED 0, RDNS_SUSP 0, RDNS_SUSP_SPECIFIC 0, SMALL_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __RDNS_POOLED_10 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END 0, __TO_IN_SUBJECT 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0 X-PMX-Spam-Level: X X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:51:17 -0000 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. Regards, Peter