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Time to clear out the distfiles

It’s time to clear old distfiles. Based on Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles, I did the following on the aws-1-ingress01 jail. In short: fetch index list DISTFILES used by index remove DISTFILES not used by index The commands: root@freshports:/usr/ports # make fetchindex /usr/bin/env fetch -am -o /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz https://download.FreeBSD.org/ports/index/INDEX-14.xz /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz 1864 […]

Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles

Leave a Comment / distfiles, New ideas / Dan Langille

FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB.

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