Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Tue Nov 21 07:53:19 UTC 2017


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).

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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