On Wednesday 13 April 2005 18:43, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > 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.
I did not say that the sources are neved unpacked, neither did I say that the build phase (during which the sources are unpacked) takes little 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), This is controlled by a feature in make.conf. IIRC, the default is to delete the temporary unpacked sources after the build. > 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. I said this also. Bye! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
