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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:25:59 +0000
From:      zhaghzhagh@openmailbox.org
To:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   '/var/db/pkg/' - Clean up old catalogue etc. =?UTF-8?Q?files=3F?=
Message-ID:  <ed6f83be2a82d569ab2c42d7e51b92d5@openmailbox.org>

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Hello

Looking in to my host's '/var/db/pkg/' directory I spot a few catalogue, 
metadata etc. files that belong to already removed repositories.

Is there any documented (or manual but safe) way to remove these files? 
Looking into the manual pages of 'pkg' did not bring much luck. Removing 
downloaded package binaries I can, 'pkg clean', removing old repository 
related files, not.

Directory looks like this, for example, all 'myrepo...s' should be gone 
(to save some disk space):

[root@domain /var/db/pkg]# ls -l
total 608532
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Sep 15 09:24 FreeBSD.meta
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 22:05 apr-1.5.2.1.5.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 22:02 db5-5.3.28_3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 22:03 expat-2.1.0_3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 20:46 gettext-runtime-0.19.7
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 20:50 gettext-tools-0.19.7
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 22:06 help2man-1.43.3_1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Sep 15 09:24 latest.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   9178112 Sep 15 18:52 local.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Mar 26 02:58 myrepo.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Apr 13 18:30 myrepo2.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Apr 13 18:33 myrepo3.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Apr 13 18:33 myrepo4.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Jun 14 06:57 myrepo5.meta
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 22:05 p5-Locale-gettext-1.06
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 21:57 perl5-5.20.3_8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Apr  4 21:20 perl5.20-5.20.3_8
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Sep 15 07:31 quarterly.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Aug  6 13:15 release_1.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Aug  6 13:15 release_2.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Aug  6 13:15 release_3.meta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  47077376 Sep 15 18:49 repo-FreeBSD.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  47077376 Sep 15 18:49 repo-latest.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  78458880 Apr 18 18:06 repo-myrepo.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  42881024 Apr 18 18:06 repo-myrepo2.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  43790336 Apr 18 18:06 repo-myrepo3.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  44890112 Apr 18 18:06 repo-myrepo4.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  46038016 Jun 14 12:31 repo-myrepo5.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  46558208 Sep 15 18:49 repo-quarterly.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  78751744 Aug  6 13:15 repo-release_0.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  43214848 Aug  6 13:15 repo-release_1.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  44131328 Aug  6 13:15 repo-release_2.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  45265920 Aug  6 13:15 repo-release_3.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    408576 Sep 14 19:20 repo-repository.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       246 Sep 14 19:21 repository.meta
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   4627951 Sep 20 03:43 vuln.xml

Thanks!


Cheers



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