Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:52:39 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: committers@freebsd.org, root@freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too much cruft Message-ID: <199611191752.SAA03436@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199611191808.UAA17600@grackle.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Nov 19, 96 08:08:39 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 many out-of-date tarballs do not get nuked.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 I tried to save a full distribution on a cdrom, and I couldnt because all the out-of-date files in distfiles overflowed the available space by far. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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