From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 3:40:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr (diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5F0037B400 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 03:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29221 invoked by uid 1465); 7 Feb 2002 11:38:44 -0000 Message-ID: <20020207113844.29220.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:38:44 +0200 (EET) To: Noone Here Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tracking src-all with cvsup (was: no subject) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Noone Here wrote: > assuming i am an average user on a stand alone box, what are the minumim > sources i could track with cvsup? In other words, how much of src-all does > an average user really need? i'd like to scale down the amount of space my > /usr/src directory is consuming, but im not sure what i dont need and can > safely delete (and not track again). Hello there, The sources require a few hundred Megabytes. You should really have the entire suorce tree, as options in make.conf will enable building of separate parts, and you might find out later on that you need some part that you did not download. You'd have the entire source tree handy, just in case. Anyway, the source is not the main space consumer in a FreeBSD installation and upgrade. The object files and libraries that are created while building the system from sources will require more space than the source itself. It is /usr/obj that requires more space and not /usr/src :) - Giorgos PS: You should really put a more descriptive subject to your messages. I would have deleted and missed this one, but I randomly picked it from the messages without a subject on freebsd-questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message