Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, James <j@evilcode.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <200011201647.eAKGlCx95949@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011201349.eAKDnUR68625@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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:> WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/tmp
:>
:> Or something similar, then simply 'rm -rf /var/tmp/usr' when it gets
:> full or I want to clean it out. (I have a big /var/tmp to accomodate it,
:> but there is nothing preventing you from creating a directory in /usr
:> to hold the workdirs either).
:
:This is an excellent idea. Could we make this the default?
:
:Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
:Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
The problem is that /tmp or /var/tmp typically isn't very large, so
on most systems it would run out of space fairly quickly. I do think
that putting distfiles outside of /usr/ports by default is a good idea,
though. For example, /usr/ports.distfiles rather then
/usr/ports/distfiles.
-Matt
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