[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it safe to remove /var/pkg/cache directory?

Predrag Zečević predrag.zecevic.1961 at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 14 15:45:51 UTC 2023


On 2023-12-14 16:26, Predrag Zečević wrote:
> On 2023-12-14 11:52, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 14. Dec 2023, at 12:43, Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 11:37:52AM +0100, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 10:38 AM Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:30:53AM +0100, Predrag Zečević wrote:
>>>>>> I understand network - there can be a lot of problems preventing fast
>>>>>> download, but *pkg* showing packages decreasing...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it looks like a bug.  Feel free to file a bugreport.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, is this OK (15GB of OI packages seems too much to me)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :; pfexec du -sh /var/pkg/publisher/*
>>>>>> 21M     /var/pkg/publisher/hipster-encumbered
>>>>>> 15G     /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if it is okay or not.  Here is mine:
>>>>>
>>>>> # du -sh /var/pkg/publisher/*
>>>>> 2.30M   /var/pkg/publisher/hipster-encumbered
>>>>> 1019M   /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> I fully update usually at least once a week with a reboot (and new 
>>>>> BE).
>>>>> This update includes bits from illumos-gate.  I also update daily
>>>>> (without reboot) to have always up-to-date userland bits.  I do have
>>>>> (almost) all packages installed.  It is my oi and illumos build 
>>>>> machine.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I cannot remember which option it is but you can autopurge the cache 
>>>> after
>>>> successful install using a pkg property.
>>>
>>> It was already discussed.  It is flush-content-cache-on-success.
>>> I'm not sure if /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org is considered as
>>> content-cache - see pkg(1) man page.
>>>
>>
>> This sounds like there must be some external and/or leftover files 
>> (cores?). Some of might be possible to clean up with maintenance 
>> commands like pkg refresh, purge-history etc. can not really suggest 
>> anything specific without knowing pkg internals.
>>
>> Of course, one can experiment there — create new BE or backup BE and 
>> then you have option for quick recovery;)
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
> 
> Hi Toomas,
> 
> 1) Removing everything under /var/pkg/cache/ directory causes no 
> troubles (so I did it and rebooted systems - no issues)
> 
> 2) Checking usage of 15G under /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org (1st 
> column is size in bytes) - as you may see, no core files are found:
> 
> :; pfexec du -a /var/pkg/publisher/ | sort -n -r | numfmt --field 1 
> --from=iec --format "%'12f" | head -35
>    14.390.261 /var/pkg/publisher/
>    14.384.415 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org
>    14.034.569 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg
>     1.886.781 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8
>     1.598.110 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary
>     1.137.318 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/SUNWcs
>       799.780 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fkernel
>       685.860 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fdata%2Fterminfo
>       667.179 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Ftest%2Futiltest
>       652.333 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fheader
>       549.469 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Ftest%2Fzfstest
>       349.839 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/origins
>       349.838 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/origins/12dad71d06df371e72f75c488f47c75a13e340d1
>       313.290 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/origins/12dad71d06df371e72f75c488f47c75a13e340d1/catalog.dependency.C
>       230.196 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fextended-system-utilities
>       230.187 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Fxsh4%2Flatin
>       230.186 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/service%2Ffault-management
>       230.182 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fdata%2Fzoneinfo
>       230.179 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fdebug%2Fmdb
>       112.136 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/text%2Fdoctools
>       104.537 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fdtrace
>        97.796 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fmicrocode%2Fintel
>        86.447 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Fmath
>        82.842 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fkernel%2Fplatform
>        78.435 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/driver%2Fusb
>        68.652 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/compatibility%2Fucb
>        64.735 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/service%2Fhal
>        62.986 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fobject-file
>        60.073 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fbuild%2Fonbld
>        59.367 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/package%2Fpkg
>        56.185 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/locale%2Fes
>        53.514 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/locale%2Fen
>        53.162 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Flinker
>        51.741 /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/storage%2Fstmf
>        48.852 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/diagnostic%2Fcpu-counters
> 
> 3) I would like to know, why (in this biggest sub-directory) I get eaten 
> 10 MBs almost everyday? Any idea?
> 
> :; pfexec find 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8 
> -type f -ls | numfmt --field 1 --from=iec --format "%'12f" | sort -nr | 
> head -25
>    10.699.514   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec 12 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21925%3A20231212T013014Z
>    10.693.983   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec 11 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21923%3A20231211T012541Z
>    10.691.465   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec 10 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21922%3A20231210T012736Z
>    10.685.608   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  9 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21921%3A20231209T012742Z
>    10.684.154   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  8 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21917%3A20231208T012433Z
>    10.674.921   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  7 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21913%3A20231207T012507Z
>    10.670.474   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  6 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21912%3A20231206T012503Z
>    10.662.674   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  5 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21910%3A20231205T012514Z
>    10.649.845   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  4 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21910%3A20231204T012625Z
>    10.646.359   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  3 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21909%3A20231203T012507Z
>    10.643.618   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Dec  2 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21909%3A20231202T012212Z
>    10.625.818   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 28 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21899%3A20231128T011937Z
>    10.620.248   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 27 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21899%3A20231127T011925Z
>    10.601.970   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 26 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21899%3A20231126T012827Z
>    10.591.979   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 24 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21898%3A20231124T012156Z
>    10.568.126   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 21 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21894%3A20231121T012042Z
>    10.560.154   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 20 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21886%3A20231120T012057Z
>    10.558.420   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 19 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21886%3A20231119T012241Z
>    10.538.194   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 18 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21884%3A20231118T011910Z
>    10.513.228   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov 17 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21882%3A20231117T011904Z
>    10.176.256   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov  7 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21862%3A20231107T011847Z
>    10.170.468   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov  6 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21861%3A20231106T011430Z
>    10.167.840   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov  5 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21861%3A20231105T011642Z
>    10.163.969   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov  4 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21861%3A20231104T011602Z
>    10.159.076   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      3664028 Nov  3 
> 05:00 
> /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21853%
> 
> Regards.

I need to correct myself: 1st column is number of inodes, so this is 
correct:

:; pfexec find /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/ -type f -ls | 
numfmt --field 7 --from=iec --format "%'12f" | sort -nr -k7,7 | head -25
     65247  18830 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root   19.222.196 Dec 
13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Fboost/1.78.0%2C5.11-2023.0.0.4%3A20231029T120638Z
     64087   7559 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    7.617.818 Dec 
13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/runtime%2Fruby-26/2.6.10%2C5.11-2023.0.0.1%3A20230219T204316Z
  10035361   6919 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    7.026.767 Oct 
6 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/runtime%2Fruby-26/3.2.2%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231005T205238Z
     64491   6919 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    7.026.767 Dec 
13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/runtime%2Fruby-32/3.2.2%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231006T122317Z
     64081   6407 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    6.464.874 Dec 
13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/runtime%2Fruby-23/2.3.8%2C5.11-2023.0.0.3%3A20230219T183227Z
     65883   6022 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    6.062.353 Dec 
13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Fmanagement%2Fansible/8.6.1%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231110T132433Z
  11029074   5894 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.943.763 Dec 
13 19:34 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/library%2Fqt6/6.6.0%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231129T071756Z
   7903464   5383 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.463.598 Sep 
20 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/library%2Fqt6/6.3.2%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20230919T190700Z
   5935079   5254 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.303.667 Nov 
1  2022 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-119/1.19.2%2C5.11-2022.0.0.0%3A20221031T095117Z
     23516   5254 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.263.448 Dec 
13 19:35 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-121/1.21.5%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231208T231223Z
  10138026   5254 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.260.031 Oct 
29 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-121/1.21.3%2C5.11-2023.0.0.1%3A20231028T123723Z
  10046990   5254 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.260.027 Oct 
8 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-121/1.21.2%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231007T124506Z
   6502728   4998 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.004.143 Sep 
7 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-120/1.20.7%2C5.11-2023.0.0.1%3A20230906T053132Z
   9500436   4998 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    5.004.078 Jul 
18 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-120/1.20.6%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20230717T202025Z
   3737552   4870 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root    4.855.495 Jan  8  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/library%2Fqt5/5.12.10%2C5.11-2020.0.1.1%3A20210107T171537Z
     63137   4613 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root    4.620.942 Dec 13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/library%2Fqt5/5.15.4%2C5.11-2023.0.0.8%3A20231003T194528Z
   7465857   4613 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root    4.620.917 Jan 30  2023 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/library%2Fqt5/5.15.4%2C5.11-2023.0.0.4%3A20230129T232139Z
   1777394   4613 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.595.173 Aug 
20  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-116/1.17%2C5.11-2020.0.1.0%3A20210819T193555Z
   1644941   4229 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.213.884 Jul 
20  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-116/1.16.6%2C5.11-2020.0.1.0%3A20210719T123034Z
   1644858   4101 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.136.697 Jul 
20  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-115/1.15.14%2C5.11-2020.0.1.0%3A20210719T123033Z
   3236343   4101 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.124.715 Oct 
4  2020 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-115/1.15.2%2C5.11-2020.0.1.0%3A20201003T202017Z
     21611   4101 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.095.080 Dec 
13 19:35 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/desktop%2Foffice%2Flibreoffice/7.6.4%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20231209T130055Z
   7901845   4101 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    4.094.105 Sep 
20 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/desktop%2Foffice%2Flibreoffice/7.6.1%2C5.11-2023.0.0.0%3A20230919T220735Z
   7396156   3973 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    3.987.021 Dec 
19  2022 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/desktop%2Foffice%2Flibreoffice/7.2.7%2C5.11-2022.0.0.3%3A20221218T214316Z
  10699514   3589 -rw-r--r--   1 root            root    3.664.028 Dec 
12 05:00 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/system%2Flibrary%2Ficonv%2Futf-8/0.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21925%3A20231212T013014Z


Strange is this:

:; pkg list | grep golang
developer/golang                                  1.21.1-2023.0.0.0 
     i--
developer/golang-121                              1.21.5-2023.0.0.0 
     i--

But:
:; ls -dlh /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9 Dec 13 19:36 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Aug 23  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-115
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Aug 25  2021 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-116
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jun 19 15:21 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-119
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Oct  4 11:24 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-120
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 5 Dec 14 12:47 
/var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/pkg/developer%2Fgolang-121

So, no directory was removed when package is removed! That explains 15 
GB in /var/pkg/publisher/ directory.

If no one else have this problem, then it is not bug, but something else
Regards


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