[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is all this in /var/[...]

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On 14 January 2015 at 13:52, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> There are a very lot of files in /var/ that look like this:
>
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/file/\
>     0d/0d2172918020da3fdef8060f1e9f7d0897039a26
>
> They are a vast number of gzip compressed xml files.  What are they
> for?

As described in pkg(5), this is publisher-specific metadata for the
Image Packaging System.

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