From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 8:33:49 2003 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 7E15137B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D719443F93 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2EGXiMc025819; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: (from http@localhost) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id h2EGXi1Z025818; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:44 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: ra.dweebsoft.com: http set sender to daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com using -f Received: from 64.81.58.36 ( [64.81.58.36]) as user daxbert@localhost by ra.dweebsoft.com with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:43 -0800 Message-ID: <1047659623.3e720467d25ab@ra.dweebsoft.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:43 -0800 From: Daxbert To: Mike Meyer Cc: Cliff Sarginson , "" Subject: Re: portupgrade mess MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 64.81.58.36 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 Quoting Mike Meyer : > In <1047613811.3e715173c05c0@ra.dweebsoft.com>, Daxbert > typed: > > Quoting Cliff Sarginson : > > > > BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - > it's > > > > max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated > and > > > > I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there... > > > Delete everything in "/usr/ports/distfiles". > > > And before you go to bed one night do a "make clean" from "/usr/ports". > > > It takes .... some time... > > Another option is to add the following to your make.conf > > ( 5.x: /etc/make.conf 4.x: /etc/defaults/make.conf ) > > No! 4.x is /etc/make.conf as well. It just doesn't have one by > default, whereas 5.x does. You should *never* edit anything in > /etc/defaults. > > -- Ok... so why in 5.x does make.conf no longer live in /etc/defaults as well? --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message