/usr/portage/distfiles

madpenguin8 · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Detroit MI

Why is mine full of tar balls of old versions of everything, and more importantly how do I clear out everything except the most up to date packages?
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ebrostig · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:08 am Post subject:

because the portage system don't clean up the files. They are cached so re-install of a package or even a new ebuild that just adds a patch don't have to download the files again.

You can easily delete the files you want to.
If you only want files after a certain date, use find /usr/portage/distfiles -ctime X -exec rm -f {} \;
where X is x*24hrs.
I.e to remove files older than 7 days use -ctime 7

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BlackBart · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 252

i seem to remember something in the gentoolkit cleaning out tarballs of packages not intstalled, I don't remember what it was though.

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

The thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3011 has some interesting suggestions as to how to clean out unneeded distfiles.

drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE

If you don't plan on re-emerging the same version of any of the packages you have you can safely delete all the files in /usr/portage/distfiles.
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S_aIN_t · Guru Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 488 Location: Ottawa

i delete them regularly to reclaim the space used.
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