Re: Deletion of just installed port-packages (excluding base): success
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:46:45 UTC
On Aug 7, 2025, at 14:41, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2025, at 13:54, Yves Guérin <yvesguerin@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> Dear >> >>> Personally, I would rarely clean the cache >> >> I did everytime I need space in /var so not desirable for my point of view. >> >> Regards, >> >> Yves Guerin > > It might be that what was listed was only ones "that have > been superseded by newer versions, and any packages that > are no longer provided". (From "man pkg-clean" in my > environment.) Although, thnking about it, main ( and stable/* ) can have superseded versions of some or all pkg's twice or so a day. Removal at that rate, if not updating at that rate, might not be the best of ideas. So not cleaning automatically when not updating the FreeBSD-* may be what is appropriate. >> Le jeudi 7 août 2025 à 16:23:03 UTC−4, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> >> On 07/08/2025 16:57, Mark Millard wrote: >>> … Actually the file indicates that /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg >>> files would be deleted by the "pkg clean" (if -n had not been >>> provided): >>> >>> QUOTE >>> The following package files will be deleted: >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-libexecinfo-dev-lib32-15.snap20250715051601~2b1b4b0e75.pkg >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-telnet-man-15.snap20241026125659.pkg >>> . . . >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-bsdinstall-dbg-15.snap20250720000631.pkg >>> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-libexecinfo-dbg-15.snap20250720000631.pkg >>> The cleanup will free 1 GiB >>> END QUOTE >>> >>> I do not know if this would be desired vs. not. >>> >>> … >> >> Personally, I would rarely clean the cache. >> I think, we're partly experimenting with what's possible; not necessarily what's recommended (or desirable). >> I might demonstrate the effect of -fqy but that's certainly not a recommendation; and so on. >> HTH === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com