[OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

[Tim Mooney]

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My space-constrained OI hipster build VM is running low on space.

It looks like either pkg caching or pkg history is using quite a lot of
space:

$ pfexec du -ks /var/pkg/* | sort -n
0       /var/pkg/gui_cache
0       /var/pkg/lock
0       /var/pkg/modified
0       /var/pkg/ssl
6       /var/pkg/pkg5.image
955     /var/pkg/lost+found
5557    /var/pkg/history
23086   /var/pkg/license
203166  /var/pkg/cache
241106  /var/pkg/state
9271692 /var/pkg/publisher

What is the correct, safe way to clean up anything from pkg that I don't
need?

The closest information I've found is an article from Oracle on "Minimize
Stored Image Metadata":

 	https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54739/minvarpkg.html

This suggests changing the 'flush-content-cache-on-success' property
to true (OI defaults to False).

Is that it, or are there other (generally safe) cleanup steps that I could
take too?  Is 'pkg purge-history' a good idea?

Thanks,

Tim
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