newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles
Julien Gabel
jpeg at thilelli.net
Fri Feb 6 14:41:52 PST 2004
>> 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.
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