Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:02:17 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> Subject: Re: pkg clean question Message-ID: <20150803170217.GA10030@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDsM5mZxDXoVa6ScJiWfpapWLx68NG%2BiZKLefeh1ADPFCg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20150803153944.GA2733@knossos> <BB766AA8-B9D2-4998-9CBD-CF0BAAC01F26@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <CAKE2PDsM5mZxDXoVa6ScJiWfpapWLx68NG%2BiZKLefeh1ADPFCg@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:49:33AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > 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 Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the ones that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.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. > > Note that since recent updates of pkg there is a new AUTOCLEAN option to add in pkg.conf which will automatically cleanup the cache after each pkg operation. Best regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlW/npkACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExL1wCeKYNaDu6q17dBh5D9SezeG1Df E98AnRthQajrlPAE32qRBl4PpXU0q2cQ =p5Ul -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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