From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 9: 9:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp233-111.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D536014D23 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA29533; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:09:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Message-ID: <001501befc70$10399b20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> From: "Christopher J Michaels" To: "John" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <4.1.19990910122255.0093cab0@unix01.voicenet.com> Subject: Re: Cleaning up /usr/ports/distfiles? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:09:44 -0400 Organization: WCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Thanks for the suggestion, but the point was to only delete the ones I don't need, as I do not have a fast internet connection. I'm going to try the pib suggestion that steve price gave me. Thanks anyway, -Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: John To: Christopher J Michaels Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 12:23 PM Subject: Re: Cleaning up /usr/ports/distfiles? > If you have a fast internet connection, after your install, the tarballs > aren't that important to keep around (since you can just d/l them again). > Just rm /usr/ports/distfiles * should do if ro ya? > > --John > > At 12:06 AM 9/10/99 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi, > >Does anyone know if there is a way to clean up the old tar balls in > >/usr/ports/distfiles. I could do it manually if I was bored enough. For > >example I know I have at least 4 versions of samba in there right now. > > > >I don't want to go through and do it manually if I don't have to. > > > >-Chris > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message