2009/5/27 Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl>: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: >> Hi Daemons, >> a short question: >> >> I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? > > Sure. > >> Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. > > They won't. But they'll have to re-download relevent ones if you decide > to rebuild a port. > > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those distfiles > that do not belong to installed ports.
I love portmaster. Another advantage of ports-mgmt/portmaster: $ head -n4 `which portmaster` #!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Douglas Barton, All rights reserved # Please see detailed copyright below (I'm glad this isn't "beer license", cos I'd owe Mr. Barton a lot of beer) -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
