/usr/ports/distfiles/go insanely oversized
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 09:15:52 UTC
Hello! I have a habit to keep /usr/ports/distfiles on separate SSD in order to build packages on many different computers and OSes (12, 13 and now 14.2). Usually i do the following: # cd /usr/ports/sometheme/somepackage # make checksum # make install so that I supervise the download of source files and then have some rest while the port compiles. SSD became full, and I decided to copy data to the different HDD. Then I have found that the /usr/ports/distfiles/go has an insane number of subdirectories (some hundreds of thousands). I spent a full day in attempts to copy them (successfully at last) and only some minutes to copy the rest. Then I decided to find a total size of the distfiles with du. Now du spent 5 minutes of machine time (top listing) and has shown 288 GB in go subdir and 469 GB total. Then I have tried to compare some subdirectories in go directory, and it seems that each subdirectory contains subdirectories of all their dependencies (I am not sure). For instance, go/archivers_nfpm/pkg/mod/cache/download/github.com/!masterminds/goutils/@v contains the same files (name and size) as go/audio_gonic/pkg/mod/cache/download/github.com/!masterminds/goutils/@v What to do? How to manage it? If the problem cannot be solved I am going just to ban the /usr/ports/distfiles/go dependent ports completely and try to live without them. I had the same problem 2 years ago but it was not so severe as now. Sincerely yours, Anatoly