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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:38:39 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        polyduekes@proton.me,  FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase [ /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg as well? ]
Message-ID:  <86tsyk8dtc.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
In-Reply-To: <B5163303-09EE-4C2B-87ED-2A2A5AFE4919@yahoo.com> (Mark Millard's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:59:20 -0800")
References:  <B5163303-09EE-4C2B-87ED-2A2A5AFE4919@yahoo.com>

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Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
> At some point after one is no longer dependent
> on FreeBSD-*.pkg files from pkgbase, one may
> want to recover the disk space from any:
>
> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
>
> files.

`pkg clean -y` after either deleting the package database or dropping
the base packages from it but before disabling the pkgbase repository
will take care of this.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org


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