Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:49:33 -0700 From: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> To: Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg clean question Message-ID: <CAKE2PDsM5mZxDXoVa6ScJiWfpapWLx68NG%2BiZKLefeh1ADPFCg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BB766AA8-B9D2-4998-9CBD-CF0BAAC01F26@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <20150803153944.GA2733@knossos> <BB766AA8-B9D2-4998-9CBD-CF0BAAC01F26@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On 3 August 2015 at 09:13, Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:
>
>> Amd64, 9.3. Updated few times, packages also. At first I
>> found on laptop that /var directory was at 102%. Using
>> "pkg clean" i removed about 400mb of cache packages from
>> /var/cache/pkg. Tried to clean desktop cache and the out-
>> put of the command was "nothing to do". I see about 400
>> mb of files in the cache directory. Is it safe to remove
>> them by the hand?
>
>
> Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the ones that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.
>
You may want to autoremove, too:
autoremove
Delete packages which were automatically installed as dependen-
cies and are not required any more.
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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