From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 09:20:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB2816A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:20:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep7.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BA043D39 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:20:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep7.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D12139C; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 04:20:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AEDDDF.8010201@cogeco.ca> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:18:23 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Seibert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Deleting Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:20:12 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All' > directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I > wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I clean out the > '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident. > > Thanks in advance! > > > Gerard Seibert > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad > to worse. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > My first instinct would be that the packages directory is for binary, precompiled packages what the distfiles directory is for source tarballs, and can be regularly cleaned. However, I didn't see a reference to it un /usr/ports/README, whereas it did advise me that distfiles can be periodically cleaned without ill effect. The FreeBSD 5.1 machine I presently have running doesn't even have a /usr/ports/packages directory. Since I install pretty much everything from the port when I can, and nothing huge was made(except PHP, which I know was compiled anyway), this would still fit with my theory. Is there a README file in your /usr/ports/packages directory? Also, glance at some of the files and see if they look like distribution packages. Sorry I can't be more specific. -BB