From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 14:41:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2016A4E2 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (juliengabel.net1.nerim.net [62.212.119.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C6743D5C for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673C4241FC for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:41:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23267-02 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:41:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F11C241FA for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:41:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from 192.168.0.97 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:41:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <65407.192.168.0.97.1076107307.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20040206222802.GB72712@users.munk.nu> References: <200402061721.22349.bsd@elkins.org> <20040206222802.GB72712@users.munk.nu> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:41:47 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net Subject: Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:41:52 -0000 >> I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than >> insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep >> them around? > No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove > and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to > reinstall a port for some reason, the source tarball will be > downloaded again to /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the > sounds of it. If you have installed portupgrade(1), you can use the portsclean(1) command to "clean" your ports: # portsclean -C # portsclean -D # portsclean -DD # portsclean -L # portsclean -P Look at the '-D' and '-DD' for /usr/ports/distfiles in particular. -- -jg.