I was doing a sweep of my hard drive today, looking for stuff that might be unexpectedly eating up space. And OmniDiskSweeper said there was 2 gigs in /sw/src/fink.build. When I looked at it, I saw several folders there the names of which corresponded to packages I had attempted to build but which had failed. All of the packages in question had since been fixed and successfully built, or I had at least temporarily given up on them, but the incomplete build files remained there.
I checked the man page for fink, but couldn't find any commands or options that claimed to delete failed or uncompleted builds. I ran "fink cleanup --all", but those failed builds were not among the items removed. So my question is twofold: 1) Is there any risk in my simply rm'ing those failed builds directly? As I mentioned, the packages in question have since been built successfully (or abandoned), so there shouldn't be any reason to keep the failed builds around, but I don't know if there's some internal index fink keeps that might get messed up if I manually delete them. 2) Is there an option or command somewhere that I'm missing, something that would remove failed builds either automatically upon failure or manually on command? Or is manually rm'ing failed builds out of /sw/src/fink.build periodically the only way to keep them from hanging around indefinitely? If there is no built-in option, is that something that could be looked at as a possible additional mode for cleanup? Or is there some reason I'm not aware of to keep failed builds around? Mark D. McKean qpa...@quantumpanda.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
