After following your instructions I have dropped from over 6 gigs down to 3.8 gigs, which seems to be a more reasonable figure to me.
I am on a cable connection so re-downloading is not a major issue with me. My distfiles had grown to 1.2 gigs, and yes also there were some failed emerge packages.
Backing up to cds is always a good idea.
This sets my deranged mind to wondering, is there a howto setup for how to screw up my system and bring it back to the stable point simply working from backups?
W.Kenworthy wrote:
To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be downloaded - again.
There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles, limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well.
However, unless space is critical I would leave them there. Unless you are on a low cost, mega fast link having the sources already available speeds things up a lot.
Alternatives are burn them to cdrom, put them on a remote nfs mount etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BillK
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
George Roberts wrote:
I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded/usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed.
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