-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote:
>On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of >>updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the >>binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. >> >>Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous >>installation of jre. However, after downloading the new version and >>checking /usr/portage/distfiles/, I discovered that there are about 3 >>other versions of sun-jre-bin in this directory. Can these be removed? >>Also, despite the unmerge, there are 3 other sun-jre-bin-<version> >>directories in /opt. Can these also be safely removed? >> >>Regards, >> >>Colleen >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >Hi, >Yes, you can (i even do it ;-) remove old package sources. The single drawback is that if >you need to downgrade (rarely happens) you have to download them again (i use "distclean" script). >Check www.gentooexperimental.org for this and other usefull scripts. >To your second question-just think (not sure) this are only parts of the old installs. >As far as you removed (emerge -C) the previous packages, this isn't a great problem. >Check the dirs content. >HTH.Rumen Thanks. I did figure out that the directories in /opt were just remnants - they only had the man directory in them, so I removed them. Will check out the link. Also will take under advisement your caution regarding the removal of files in /usr/portage/distfiles. Based on what you said, I think I will keep one older version of the sun-jre-bin versions, but I'll remove the others. And this did help. Regards, Colleen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDwIVL7FsR4jhcRJoRAq7DAKCsX+hQNPE7TNU7+WKfy8rqPwvJxwCfaBYX JURBU+6BE0zaPl2x8uSwYKQ= =BN7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
