Le 04/13/05 avril Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:39, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > >> But what are the implications of this? If i was to remove the source >> packages would i break portage? once before i tried removing the >> sources in portage and nothing would install anymore. > > The unpacked sources are not stored anywhere; they are unpacked during > the build phase, and after that only the compressed version is kept, > in /usr/portage/distfiles, and it's perfectly safe to delete everything > inside that directory. Etaoin, what you say about unpacked souces is not right: Packed sources are copied to PORTAGE_TMPDIR (by default it is /var/tmp/portage) and unpacked + compiled there, and the compilation process sometimes uses a *lot* of disk space. When this is finished the files are *not* deleted, so if you want to free some space it is good to delete all files in PORTAGE_TMPDIR (it is safe to be in this dir to issue the rm command), and you can also delete the packed sources in /usr/portage/distfiles, but if you have to reinstall something, then you would have to download the package again. cheers, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier | Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net | 13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 | P 06 09 17 35 87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
