On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:38:28PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Cvsupping a 5.2 box after today's Advisory, > I noticed (perhaps for the first time), that > files were downloaded for other architectures > (amd64, sparc64, etc.).
Those are the arch specific parts of the kernel, which is a very small
part of the total sources. You need them about as much as you need
the driver code for devices not present on your system: ie. not at
all. However, it's going to be a lot more effort going round and
deleting those files than any possible benefit from the small amount
of filesystem space you'll recover.
Cheers,
Matthew
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