On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:27 AM, David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-freebsd-po...@weller-fahy.com> wrote: > * Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> [2012-10-27 01:44 -0400]: >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy >> <dave-lists-freebsd-po...@weller-fahy.com> wrote: >> > ALWAYS_SCRUB_DISTFILES=dopt >> >> I'm on the DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt side as the wrong files will get >> deleted on occasion. I suggest running 'portmaster --clean-disfiles'. >> It is much better at picking out the files you want to delete. > > Hrm... I can't say that I've noticed. I set that and have ignored it > since. I assume one would notice by having distfiles downloaded again > the next time you needed to build the software, right? > > -- > dave [ please don't CC me ]
In general, that is right. And most distfiles are not so big as to make downloading again a real problem, assuming a good broadband network link. But that is not always the case. More important to me is that distfiles will occasionally be pulled and become unfetchable. If you need to re-build to link to a newer shareable or because of a major OS version update or whatever, you are stuck. Still, I'll admit that it is not generally a problem, but I have been bitten and "once bitten, twice shy'. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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"
