From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 8:48:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDFA37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:48:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAKGlCx95949; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011201647.eAKGlCx95949@earth.backplane.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Warner Losh , James , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean References: <200011201349.eAKDnUR68625@cwsys.cwsent.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message