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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:53:06 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?
Message-ID:  <b4366771-de30-fa98-2d28-117e776031ae@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711211541090.780@aneurin.horsfall.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711210925490.780@aneurin.horsfall.org> <5A1397AC.9080408@grosbein.net> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711211541090.780@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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On 11/21/2017 06:02, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 
>>> Shouldn't one of the divers package tools be cleaning them out, or is
>>> that a separate task?
>>
>> man pkg-clean
> 
> Thanks; that's over a half-gigabyte recovered on a 1GB /var...

There's also an autoclean setting you can put in pkg.conf, check
pkg.conf(5).

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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