Do I need /var/db/portsnap/distfiles and /usr/port/distfiles?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Feb 16 23:22:56 UTC 2017
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
> > aneurin# du -sk /usr/ports/distfiles /var/db/portsnap/files
> > 965198 /usr/ports/distfiles
>
> This is a cache, so you can delete it, or trim it with distclean
> (installed with portupgrade), or portmaster.
Thanks; nearly 1GB here I come...
> > 106594 /var/db/portsnap/files
>
> If you don't use portsnap then you can delete everything under
> /var/db/portsnap. Don't delete these files if you do.
Yes, I do use portsnap, so thanks for the advice.
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