Deleting fetched packages

oshman · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:04 am Post subject: Deleting fetched packages

I did a bunch of --fetchonly emerges and was wondering how to delete the packages after they've been compiled.

Any help appreciated.
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plut0 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 272

Theres two directories that portage uses for temp files, $BUILD_PREFIX and $DISTDIR. I believe the defaults are /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage/distfiles.

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

The default location for the files you downloaded is /usr/portage/distfiles

For every file you want to remove just do "rm /usr/portage/distfiles/filename"

Though I usually just leave my distfiles directory alone. Lots of times an updated version of some program uses the same source code file but an updated ebuild so if I remove the file then later it'll download the whole thing again.

TheCool · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Tampa, FL

Following along with this thread, I was wondering if there is a way to have emerge automatically delete the source from /usr/portage/distfiles when its done with the emerge.

I have many gentoo boxes on my network so I run a local rsync and I cache all the distfiles on one server, so even if I have to redownload everytime I upgrade or rebuild the package, its coming down at LAN speeds.

Since I have so many gentoo boxes on the network there is no reason to have 12 copies of a distfile, you think?[/url]

plut0 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 272

I don't think emerge can do that but I have two suggestions for you, TheCool. emerge tmpwatch and try that out, I put it on crontab to cleanup these directories as such:

05 3 * * * /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -u -s -v 168 /var/tmp/portage
15 3 * * * /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -u -s -v 168 /var/tmp/distfiles

That will delete anything older than 7 days.

The other suggestion is if you have so many gentoo machines on a LAN why not nfs mount your $DISTDIR?