Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:39:53 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleanup of /var/db/pkg/ Message-ID: <20140624063953.GA12165@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <53A90D99.10009@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20140624014513.GA3659@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53A90D99.10009@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Is it safe to remove all directories and files therein in /var/db/pkg/ > > after running pkg2ng? > > > > Is there anything of value there other than /var/db/pkg/*.sqlite > > databases? > > Generally, yes. Other than local.sqlite or repo*.sqlite pkg(8) also > uses some other bits and pieces like vuln.xml -- but apart from > local.sqlite all of those can be downloaded from the net. > > Note that if you use portmaster(8) it creates per-pkg directories under > /var/db/pkg to stash some information about distfiles. Deleting these > will cause nothing worse than portmaster being unable to remove outdated > versions of distfiles. Yes, I use portmaster. Would it be wiser then to delete only the '+*' files, like find /var/db/pkg/ -type f -name '+*' -delete My ultimate goal is to disable the pkg_* tools. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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