Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:09:32 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing distfiles? Message-ID: <d7195cff0905271509i8d5f2e7k8936c2c34919f14a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090527224351.1e94029b@bobcat.edu> <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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2009/5/27 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>: > 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. I love portmaster. Another advantage of ports-mgmt/portmaster: $ head -n4 `which portmaster` #!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Douglas Barton, All rights reserved # Please see detailed copyright below (I'm glad this isn't "beer license", cos I'd owe Mr. Barton a lot of beer) -- --
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