On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:29:25 +0000 (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Martyn Welch wrote: > > > Please could someone comfirm the following for me: > > > > The files in /usr/protage/distfiles are those that are downloaded to > > install the packages on the PC. If I was to delete ALL the files in > > this directory it wouldn't break anything (apart from possibly > > currently running emerges). I have installed on a relatively small > > harddrive and would like to free some space! > > > > Is there any better way to do this? > > > > Cheers in advance, > > > > Martyn > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > Yes. However, when you want to reemerge something the corresponding > tarball will be downloaded again. You can keep the contents of > /usr/portage/distfiles in a CD and copy back to /usr/portage/distfiles > > what you need when you need it. > > > Jorge Almeida > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > YMMV, but I almost never need to reemerge anything, so I do rm * in /usr/portage/distfiles and rm -r * in /var/tmp/portage after any round of updates. It's worked for me for several years now. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system xfce4-cvs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
