Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:25:53 +0100 From: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> To: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> Cc: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deleting ports distfiles Message-ID: <20141117002553.74ae7348@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k92p5k=AUX=pcQDzbSL8rFDysNnc1=3cg6s0MKHFupo_pg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20141116232937.657463ce@kirk.drpetervoigt.private> <20141116225501.GA52979@ozzmosis.com> <CA%2BE3k92p5k=AUX=pcQDzbSL8rFDysNnc1=3cg6s0MKHFupo_pg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:10:00 -0900
Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt
> > (pvoigt@uos.de) wrote:
> >
> >> I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB.
> >> My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all
> >> files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
> >>
> >> # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
> >>
> >> I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
> >
> > Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a
> > port.
>
> You can also delete just the unused ones, if you're using portmaster
> or portupgrade ('portsclean' command). See the bottom of the "Using
> the Ports Collection" docs page:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
>
> Even if you don't use portmaster for anything else, using it for this
> purpose is worth the install, IMO.
>
> Royce
Yeah, that's nice. I have just executed:
# portmaster --clean-distfiles -y
Which freed up 8 GiB of disk space.
Thanks,
Peter
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