Deleting ports distfiles

[Ivan Klymenko]

В Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:37 +0100
"Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt at uos.de> пишет:

> I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My
> hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files
> under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
> 
> # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
> 
> I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
> 

You can clean up, but if you'll rebuild the ports that the source will
be downloaded again.
Therefore it is better to do like this: portmaster -y --clean-distfiles