-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 05:42 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Really ?? I know you can safely delete /var/tmp/distfiles, but I've always > left the others alone. They do just appear to be directories though with > just one file, .ebuild ?? > > Not to go off-topic and maybe I'll start a new thread about this, but when > you delete this kind of stuff, how does emerge know how/what to remove when > you do an "emerge -C package-name" ??
Portage stores file information in /var/db/pkg - anything under /var/tmp is just that - temp files that can be safely deleted. Granted, in some ways it is nice to keep that stuff around, but I recently ran out of diskspace as I had 5gigs plus on /var/tmp/portage..... Ack! Remove everything under /var/ tmp/portage (leave the portage dir!), without fear of screwing anything up. ;-) - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D81740A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rBuCZosHVX2BdAoRAq6eAJ9ScXmt3QBOWsAYmDNuUVdP44gccQCeKu+W PHBW/iuYZVVoiuYxHgk5iuk= =gHvd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
