removing distfiles?

[herbert langhans]

Thanks,
quite some GB I could clean out on my workstation running on a good(?) old(!) 20GB harddisk..

herb langhans


On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:

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