Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase [ /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg as well? ]

In reply to: Mark Millard : "Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase [ /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg as well? ]"
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From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:38:39 UTC

Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
> At some point after one is no longer dependent
> on FreeBSD-*.pkg files from pkgbase, one may
> want to recover the disk space from any:
>
> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
>
> files.

`pkg clean -y` after either deleting the package database or dropping
the base packages from it but before disabling the pkgbase repository
will take care of this.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org