Thanks! James
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote: > > > >>I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything >>that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is >>there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked >>source files and tarballs (e.g. emerge --[whatever]), or should I >>go hunt them down in /usr/portage... and delete them 'manually'? >> >> > >Yes, there is no way to make portage automatically deleting the source >tarballs from /usr/portage/distfiles (this is the place where they >are kept). > >So, you have to delete them in some other way. I use a cron job that >once a week cleans up everything (in addition >to /usr/portage/distfiles, there are some other places, like dirs >in /var/tmp whose name I don't recall now and can't check from here). > >HTH >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
