Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

laurent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles.
>
> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles.
>
> If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink
> /var/ftp/distfiles to it.
>
> Is the second safe with just a symlink or should I change a PATH
> somewhere?
>
> I should do both solution.
>
> thank you
> Laurent
>
>


If you need to clean out unneeded tarballs in distfiles, you can use
eclean.  It's part of gentoolkit.  eclean-dist is the command you are
looking for.  eclean-dist -h for more info.

If you want to move the distfiles directory, you can change the path in
make.conf and tell it where the new location is.  You will have to copy
the files from the old location to the new location tho.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)