Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:52:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, James <j@evilcode.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <200011201652.eAKGqlh13157@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:47:12 PST." <200011201647.eAKGlCx95949@earth.backplane.com>
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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
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