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craftyc
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 Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 3:03 pm Post subject: /var/tmp/portage |
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Is it safe to delet everything in the /var/tmp/portage directory? It seems to be quite huge and is eating up what little space I have  .
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject: Go ahead ... |
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| Short answer: yes! But don't do it during a build/merge operation. |
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niyogi
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| Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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man oh man how this directory and the /usr/portage/distfiles gave me tons of space... why aren't files deleted by emerge automatically after an installation has been performed? or perhaps emerge clean should do it
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craftyc
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your replies.
| Quote: | man oh man how this directory and the /usr/portage/distfiles gave me tons of space... why aren't files deleted by emerge automatically after an installation has been performed? or perhaps emerge clean should do it
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Yeah, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. 
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 4:02 am Post subject: |
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They are not deleted because not every updated ebuild requires an updated download, and constant re-downloading for 56k users is not the most exciting thing
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| TheWart wrote: | | They are not deleted because not every updated ebuild requires an updated download, and constant re-downloading for 56k users is not the most exciting thing |
I remember those frustrating line-drops and downloads just getting to 3k/s  . My heart goes out to al 56K users.
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phraktle
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 12:50 pm Post subject: /var/tmp |
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| TheWart wrote: | | They are not deleted because not every updated ebuild requires an updated download, and constant re-downloading for 56k users is not the most exciting thing :) |
that's true for /usr/portage/distfiles, but the /var/tmp/portage is just a temporary dir, with all sorts of compilation junk in there, especially after a failed emerge. emerge clean (or another option) should probably clean it out... (or your regular /tmp, /var/tmp cleaning process at boot :)
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