Re: How to do the equivalent of "pkg clean" for the likes of: /usr/local/poudriere/jails/official-aarch64/var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-* [poudriere vs. pkg issue?]

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 03:41:20 UTC
On 5/8/26 20:27, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 5/8/26 5:35 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this would be considered a poudriere usage s. a pkg
>> usage issue for where to submit.
>>
>> My poudriere jail updates are not cleaning out prior:
>>
>> /usr/local/poudriere/jails/*/var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*
>>
>> files after updates. For example my "official-aarch64" poudriere jail
>> now shows over 1600 files:
>>
>> # ls -dC1
>> /usr/local/poudriere/jails/official-aarch64/var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-* |
>> wc -l
>>      1682
>>
>> and spans a history of 6 snapshots:
>>
>> # ls -dC1t \
>> /usr/local/poudriere/jails/official-aarch64/var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*~* \
>> | sed -e 's@^.*\(/FreeBSD-.*\)-15\.snap.*~.*$@\1@' \
>> | sort \
>> | uniq -c \
>> | sort -rn \
>> | head
>>     6 /FreeBSD-utilities-lib32
>>     6 /FreeBSD-utilities
>>     6 /FreeBSD-toolchain
>>     6 /FreeBSD-src-sys
>>     6 /FreeBSD-runtime-lib32
>>     6 /FreeBSD-runtime
>>     6 /FreeBSD-kernel-man
>>     6 /FreeBSD-geom
>>     6 /FreeBSD-clibs-dev
>>     6 /FreeBSD-bsnmp
>>
>>
> Oh this is pkgbase! How are you managing this jail? Are those packages
> coming from `poudriere jail -u`?
> 
> 


Yes, the original poudreire jail creation as via pkgbase style and
poudriere jail -u upgrades were then done. They do not clean out the
older cached material after the upgrades.


I've already sent separate notes for a way to do it externally as a
workaround. Its technical details suggest what poudriere-devel would
need to do at the end of the upgrade.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com