Diskspace exceeded on packages.macports.org?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Jun 25 20:40:59 PDT 2015


On 2015-6-26 11:17 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jun 25, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> 
>> We cannot easily clean distfiles, because ports may still depend on them and the
>> original master site may be either long gone or the original tarball deleted for
>> other reasons. That's why the distfiles are stockpiling without any cleanup.
> 
> Yes, I do like having old distfiles available, for those times when I need to go back and look at older versions of a port.

We do need to draw the line somewhere though.

- Josh


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