Martin Costabel wrote:
> M. Singh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> $ du -skh /sw
>> 904M
>>
>> $ fink install gimp2
>>
>> (I interrupt this process midway).
>>
>> $ fink cleanup --all
>>
>> $ du -skh /sw
>> 1.2 G
>>
>> What gives ?
> 
> When fink finishes building a package, it cleans up by removing the 
> build directory (unless you use the -k or -K flags to tell fink to keep 
> the build directories). But if you interrupt the build process midway as 
> you did, the build directory remains. Have a look at /sw/src/fink.build, 
> where these build directories reside.
> 
> Fink also keeps all the downloaded sources in /sw/src, unless you use 
> "fink cleanup", see "man fink".

Then this must be a bug report. As I stated in my previous post (see 
above, I *did* use fink cleanup --all).

The sources were present in /sw/src as you indicated.

> 
> If you have problems with disk space, you can remove everything in 
> /sw/src, except the directory /sw/src/fink.build.
> 

Did that. Now I have most of my space back (other than the generated 
object files in the subtree of fink.build, I guess).

Is it possible to specify that fink discard these object files once it 
is done building a deb ? Seems kind of wasteful to keep them around.


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