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Date:      14 Mar 2003 15:45:45 +0100
From:      CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
Cc:        Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>, Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portupgrade mess
Message-ID:  <1047653144.3288.6.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu>
In-Reply-To: <20030314131642.GB87581@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
References:  <1047613811.3e715173c05c0@ra.dweebsoft.com> <20030314131642.GB87581@tuatara.fishballoon.org>

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What I did was move my distfiles directory elsewhere and made a symbolic
link to it.

That means that the pointers are still valid in every compile, but they
exist elsewhere...

You could just empty distfiles with a rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
(don't forget the *)

Anthony

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:16, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:50:11PM -0800, Daxbert wrote:
> > 
> > This will get your distfile downloads out of 
> > /usr/ports as well.  However, there's probably 
> > a cleaner way to do this via a make.conf setting.
> 
> DISTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/ports/distfiles
> 
> should do it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Scott

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