And could when you update a package it deletes the old srcs? Just the other day I tried to update some stuff and I ran out of disk space. I found old tar.gzs in /sw/src despite having just dl'd newer versions. I keep the existing src files since I only have a (56k) modem.
BTW - gidday all. Love Fink's work. Cheers, Brooke > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hines [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:04 PM > To: Darryl Zurn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Can I get rid of extra 'baggage' in > /sw/src? > > At 11:20 PM -0500 5/30/02, Darryl Zurn wrote: > >I have been using Fink for some time, installing lots of neat things > >from 'curses' to 'XDarwin' and XFree86, and it's been a great tool! > >I'm looking forward to KDE and GNOME as well. > > > >So now I need to reclaim some of the space on my OS X partition, > >which is where the /sw directory is. I ran out of space when > >installing XFree86, so I really need to move some stuff to a > >partition with more room. (I did finally get XFree86 to install, but > >I had to move other stuff around and wait *hours* for the compile!) > > > >What parts of Fink's sources can I get rid of or move to another > >directory? Was there some way to change the configuration to allow > >using a different directory, or can I just delete some of the > >large-ish packages in /sw/src? > > > (is this in the FAQ? perhaps it should be?) > > You can delete _everything_ from /sw/src. The stuff there is only > needed at build time. The only drawback would be that if you needed > to build something you already had again from source, you would have > to redownload it. > > Likewise, you can delete all *.deb files in your /sw heirarchy > without ill effect, other than possibly needing to rebuild things > later. They don't affect anything at runtime. > > In the future there will be some sort of "fink clean" command to help > you with this. > > -Ben > -- > http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/ > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
