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dilandau
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 Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: delete distfiles? |
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is it safe to delete anything in /usr/portage/distfiles to make room on my hd? is there a portage command to do exactly that?
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thorpe
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| Quote: | | is it safe to delete anything in /usr/portage/distfiles to make room on my hd? |
Yes.
| Quote: | | is there a portage command to do exactly that? |
No, but...
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sudo rm /usr/portage/distfiles/*
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should be fine.
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shickapooka800
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rm /usr/portage/distfiles/*
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if you accidentally delete the folder called "cvs-src" in distfiles (like if you give rm the -r option) then it will jsut be re-created again later.
there is no harm in getting rid of the stuff in it. There is also no portage command that I know of, as the normal "remove" command works just fine. |
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dilandau
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the point ist, that one needs to know about that directory.
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thorpe
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | the point ist, that one needs to know about that directory. |
No... there is nothing in there that portage needs to know about.
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hjnenc
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| dilandau wrote: | | the point ist, that one needs to know about that directory. |
Otherwise, one has to know about the command ...
Btw. there is eclean which can be used to remove outdated stuff from the distfiles. (See man eclean for details). eclean is part of gentoolkit. |
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