On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Dr. Peter Voigt <pvo...@uos.de> wrote:
> 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. > It is not necessarily a safe operation to preform depending on the details. The downloads in that location may be the last known copy of that particular port/version at least as a copy available to you. Deleting those files could prevent you from rebuilding a certain port/version if needed. Nearly all the time this isn't a problem or easily worked around, but not universally so IME. After doing a ports upgrade, and ensuring fully correct operation of the system it's generally safe to run something like "portmaster -t--clean-distfiles" to remove stale distfiles. -- Adam _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
