On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:24, Matt Chorman wrote: > -----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. ;-)
Okay, I realize I'm being lazy here, but can I delete the directories distfiles, portage, and portage-pkg, and the files in them obviously, and have emerge/portage re-create those directories ?? Or, should you just delete the files inside and leave the dirs there ?? I do recall a message recently about files in /var/tmp and that apps can "expect" them to remain there vs being deleted. Is there a bootup script that normally empties /tmp and other 'tmp' dirs ?? Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
