Subject: RE: making packages with little disk space?
To: (Georg Schwarz) <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de>
From: LeRoy C. Miller III <qball@ansic.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/24/2000 06:42:53
I have in my root weekly scripts for (cd /usr/pkgsrc ; make clean)
if you make clean in the package src dir it will clean everything out for  you,
but keep everything in distfiles, you can add it to cron, do it manually or add
it to daily/weekly scripts.  

Hope this helps you
LeRoy
On 24-Apr-00 Georg Schwarz wrote:
> I'm currently (for over a week now) trying to make the NetBSD pkg on a
> DECstation 2100. I've downloaded the current pkgsrc.tar.gz and unpacked
> it, then typed a "make" in /usr/pkgsrc/. Unfortunaltely my /usr disk is
> just about 1.2 GB, which is slowly filling to the max now. I'm wondering
> if there's a better way to build the packages, e.g. an option that
> automatically cleans up or frees disk space one a package have
> successfully been built and installed. Also, the distfiles might be
> automatically removed to save space. Is there such an option I could
> have specified somewhere?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Georg Schwarz     schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
> Institut für Theoretische Physik       +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
> Technische Universität Berlin        http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/

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