From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 8:53: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6C537B4C5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA14720; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:53:01 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda14718; Mon Nov 20 08:52:52 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAKGqlh13157; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:52:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011201652.eAKGqlh13157@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdy13144; Mon Nov 20 08:52:02 2000 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Mailer: nmh 1.0.4, Exmh 2.1.1 X-Sender: cschuber To: Matt Dillon Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Warner Losh , James , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:12 PST." <200011201647.eAKGlCx95949@earth.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:52:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200011201647.eAKGlCx95949@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > :> 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? > > 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. I already do that through the use of symlinks. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message