Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:40:03 -0600 Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:12 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: portmaster removes any files not associated with currently installed packages, the other two do can do that, but also have the option to leave any files that are still up-to-date with respect to the ports tree. This is a misleading statement. portmaster also has that option. My mistake. I'd always assumed that in -t --clean-distfiles the -t had its usual meaning of recurse through port dependencies. What makes that particularly confusing is that recursing to handle missing dependencies would be a useful option. I'd still recommend distviper over portmaster because it's faster. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:10:00 -0900
Royce Williams wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com
wrote:
On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt
(pvo...@uos.de) wrote:
I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB.
My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all
files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
# rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a
port.
You can also delete just the unused ones, if you're using portmaster
or portupgrade ('portsclean' command). See the bottom of the Using
the Ports Collection docs page:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
Even if you don't use portmaster for anything else, using it for this
purpose is worth the install, IMO.
portupgrade's portsclean utility and distviper (from
sysutils/bsdadminscripts) can do it more flexibly.
portmaster removes any files not associated with currently installed
packages, the other two do can do that, but also have the option to
leave any files that are still up-to-date with respect to the ports
tree. Most distfiles are replaced every few months, so it doesn't make
a huge difference in terms of disk space.
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Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:12 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: portmaster removes any files not associated with currently installed packages, the other two do can do that, but also have the option to leave any files that are still up-to-date with respect to the ports tree. This is a misleading statement. portmaster also has that option. -- Adam ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, RW wrote: portupgrade's portsclean utility and distviper (from sysutils/bsdadminscripts) can do it more flexibly. portmaster removes any files not associated with currently installed packages, the other two do can do that, but also have the option to leave any files that are still up-to-date with respect to the ports tree. Actually, portmaster can do that also: portmaster -t -y --clean-distfiles ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Mon, 11/17/14, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Actually, portmaster can do that also: portmaster -t -y -clean-distfiles ___ Test first I did not want the majority deleted... #portsclean -DD -n | tee -a /gz_files #sed -i bak 's.Delete \/usr\/ports\/distfiles\/..g' /gz_files . fifteen minutes on the web to find that line above escaping the path # grep / /gz_files | less # in another xterm, /bin/rm -rf the extra directories # grep -v / /gz_files | grep bz2 | xargs -J % /bin/rm -iv %... tests it, check output # ..-v % does the above Repeat the immeditate two lines above (-iv then -v ) for gz, -i zip, xz, (the latter I forgot BTW) and that should be most of them. I deleted 500 files that way, so am done for the year. . Easier posting here than in the forum... Pardon any typos. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Deleting ports distfiles
I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. Regards, Peter ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt (pvo...@uos.de) wrote: I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a port. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote:
On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt (pvo...@uos.de) wrote:
I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My
hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files
under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
# rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a port.
You can also delete just the unused ones, if you're using portmaster
or portupgrade ('portsclean' command). See the bottom of the Using
the Ports Collection docs page:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
Even if you don't use portmaster for anything else, using it for this
purpose is worth the install, IMO.
Royce
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Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Dr. Peter Voigt pvo...@uos.de wrote: I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. It is not necessarily a safe operation to preform depending on the details. The downloads in that location may be the last known copy of that particular port/version at least as a copy available to you. Deleting those files could prevent you from rebuilding a certain port/version if needed. Nearly all the time this isn't a problem or easily worked around, but not universally so IME. After doing a ports upgrade, and ensuring fully correct operation of the system it's generally safe to run something like portmaster -t--clean-distfiles to remove stale distfiles. -- Adam ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
В Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:37 +0100 Dr. Peter Voigt pvo...@uos.de пишет: I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. You can clean up, but if you'll rebuild the ports that the source will be downloaded again. Therefore it is better to do like this: portmaster -y --clean-distfiles ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:10:00 -0900
Royce Williams ro...@tycho.org wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com
wrote:
On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt
(pvo...@uos.de) wrote:
I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB.
My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all
files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
# rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a
port.
You can also delete just the unused ones, if you're using portmaster
or portupgrade ('portsclean' command). See the bottom of the Using
the Ports Collection docs page:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
Even if you don't use portmaster for anything else, using it for this
purpose is worth the install, IMO.
Royce
Yeah, that's nice. I have just executed:
# portmaster --clean-distfiles -y
Which freed up 8 GiB of disk space.
Thanks,
Peter
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Re: Deleting ports distfiles
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:55:01 +1100 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt (pvo...@uos.de) wrote: I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a port. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thanks for your confirmation. I would like to clean up before I am going to rebuild all installed ports after the upgrade to 10.1-RELEASE. Regards, Peter ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
