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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing distfiles?
Message-ID:  <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20090527224351.1e94029b@bobcat.edu>
References:  <20090527224351.1e94029b@bobcat.edu>

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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
> Hi Daemons,
> a short question:=20
>=20
> I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correc=
t?

Sure.
=20
> Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..

They won't. But they'll have to re-download relevent ones if you decide
to rebuild a port.

Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those distfiles
that do not belong to installed ports.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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