Over time, I tend to build in the same build tree many, many times. This leads to some really big trees as many things are duplicated, especially in the 'downloads' directory.
I use local mirrors and hence my 'downloads' directory is _mostly_ populated with symbolic links. However, there are also expanded SCM packages, e.g. git2/xxx How can I safely clean up the 'downloads' directory? I already copy any created tarballs (I use BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS="1" to preclude unneeded downloads) to my mirror, but I'd like to periodically clean out the whole directory (without disturbing my builds of course). I've found out the hard way that just emptying seems to be unsafe, at least for some recipes like the [RaspberryPi] Linux kernel recipe which once built seems to expect the expanded git2/xxx tree to remain. Just trying to find ways to recover my lost GB... Thanks for any ideas -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto