[Fink-beginners] Cleaning up failed builds?

[Mark D. M. <qp...@qu...>]

I was doing a sweep of my hard drive today, looking for stuff that might
be unexpectedly eating up space. And OmniDiskSweeper said there was 2
gigs in /sw/src/fink.build. When I looked at it, I saw several folders
there the names of which corresponded to packages I had attempted to
build but which had failed. All of the packages in question had since
been fixed and successfully built, or I had at least temporarily given
up on them, but the incomplete build files remained there.

I checked the man page for fink, but couldn't find any commands or
options that claimed to delete failed or uncompleted builds. I ran "fink
cleanup --all", but those failed builds were not among the items removed.

So my question is twofold:

1) Is there any risk in my simply rm'ing those failed builds directly?
As I mentioned, the packages in question have since been built
successfully (or abandoned), so there shouldn't be any reason to keep
the failed builds around, but I don't know if there's some internal
index fink keeps that might get messed up if I manually delete them.

2) Is there an option or command somewhere that I'm missing, something
that would remove failed builds either automatically upon failure or
manually on command? Or is manually rm'ing failed builds out of
/sw/src/fink.build periodically the only way to keep them from hanging
around indefinitely? If there is no built-in option, is that something
that could be looked at as a possible additional mode for cleanup? Or is
there some reason I'm not aware of to keep failed builds around?

Mark D. McKean
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