freebsd stable - Aug 2015 - pkg clean question

On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
> Amd64, 9.3. Updated few times, packages also. At first I
> found on laptop that /var directory was at 102%. Using
> "pkg clean" i removed about 400mb of cache packages from
> /var/cache/pkg. Tried to clean desktop cache and the out-
> put of the command was "nothing to do". I see about 400
> mb of files in the cache directory. Is it safe to remove
> them by the hand?

Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the ones
that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.

Cheers,

Paul.

> Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the
ones that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.
Thanks.

                 Zoran

On 3 August 2015 at 09:13, Paul Mather <freebsd-lists at
gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
>
>> Amd64, 9.3. Updated few times, packages also. At first I
>> found on laptop that /var directory was at 102%. Using
>> "pkg clean" i removed about 400mb of cache packages from
>> /var/cache/pkg. Tried to clean desktop cache and the out-
>> put of the command was "nothing to do". I see about 400
>> mb of files in the cache directory. Is it safe to remove
>> them by the hand?
>
>
> Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the
ones that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.
>

You may want to autoremove, too:

autoremove
             Delete packages which were automatically installed as dependen-
             cies and are not required any more.
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.



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