From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 5:43: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hse-toronto-ppp119263.sympatico.ca (HSE-Toronto-ppp261201.sympatico.ca [64.230.30.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2413637B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:42:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 35162 invoked by uid 0); 21 Nov 2000 13:46:16 -0000 Received: from nat.inquent.com (216.6.14.45) by hse-toronto-ppp261201.sympatico.ca with SMTP; 21 Nov 2000 13:46:16 -0000 Received: from inquent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nat.inquent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF862E8 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:42:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A1A7BC6.2A7604A9@inquent.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:42:30 -0500 From: Rod Taylor Organization: InQuent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean References: <200011201652.eAKGqlh13157@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert wrote: > > 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. In that case do a /usr/ports.make. I want to rm -rf ports.* and clean up unused space. Or... /usr/tmp/ports.make -- Rod Taylor -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message