Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:46:45 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Yves_Gu=C3=A9rin?= <yvesguerin@yahoo.ca>, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deletion of just installed port-packages (excluding base): success Message-ID: <F7D17F56-65DF-418A-9908-2DD8D221DB27@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <E3E9D7FB-9A57-4101-83A4-1552801745C3@yahoo.com> References: <FAFC65E2-BD71-4320-81BC-9D698A476BF2@yahoo.com> <7d8a6b67-700c-47ac-8484-d6a45961a9c4@freebsd.org> <2ca670e7-b6e9-4d28-b3b8-029758db7735@gmail.com> <A33FDB4D-B3FF-41D0-BA0A-D8A1A91F65F9@yahoo.com> <dd075026-a778-4c02-9f2c-da9198d60376@gmail.com> <1707775018.328368.1754600078502@mail.yahoo.com> <E3E9D7FB-9A57-4101-83A4-1552801745C3@yahoo.com>
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On Aug 7, 2025, at 14:41, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2025, at 13:54, Yves Guérin <yvesguerin@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> Dear >> >>> Personally, I would rarely clean the cache >> >> I did everytime I need space in /var so not desirable for my point of view. >> >> Regards, >> >> Yves Guerin > > It might be that what was listed was only ones "that have > been superseded by newer versions, and any packages that > are no longer provided". (From "man pkg-clean" in my > environment.) Although, thnking about it, main ( and stable/* ) can have superseded versions of some or all pkg's twice or so a day. Removal at that rate, if not updating at that rate, might not be the best of ideas. So not cleaning automatically when not updating the FreeBSD-* may be what is appropriate. >> Le jeudi 7 août 2025 à 16:23:03 UTC−4, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> >> On 07/08/2025 16:57, Mark Millard wrote: >>> … Actually the file indicates that /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg >>> files would be deleted by the "pkg clean" (if -n had not been >>> provided): >>> >>> QUOTE >>> The following package files will be deleted: >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-libexecinfo-dev-lib32-15.snap20250715051601~2b1b4b0e75.pkg >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-telnet-man-15.snap20241026125659.pkg >>> . . . >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-bsdinstall-dbg-15.snap20250720000631.pkg >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-libexecinfo-dbg-15.snap20250720000631.pkg >>> The cleanup will free 1 GiB >>> END QUOTE >>> >>> I do not know if this would be desired vs. not. >>> >>> … >> >> Personally, I would rarely clean the cache. >> I think, we're partly experimenting with what's possible; not necessarily what's recommended (or desirable). >> I might demonstrate the effect of -fqy but that's certainly not a recommendation; and so on. >> HTH === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhome | help
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