Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:04:17 +0200 From: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> To: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting ports distfiles Message-ID: <20141117010417.6918dce0@nonamehost.local> In-Reply-To: <20141116232937.657463ce@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> References: <20141116232937.657463ce@kirk.drpetervoigt.private>
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=D0=92 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:37 +0100 "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > 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. >=20 > # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* >=20 > I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. >=20 You can clean up, but if you'll rebuild the ports that the source will be downloaded again. Therefore it is better to do like this: portmaster -y --clean-distfiles
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