[OpenIndiana-discuss] /var/pkg/publisher (Was: Is it safe to remove /var/pkg/cache directory?)

[Marcel Telka]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 04:45:51PM +0100, Predrag Zečević via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 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

Apparently, in /var/pkg/publisher/* there are manifests stored.  They
are at various versions and even manifests for packages one do not have
installed are stored there.

I did a quick peek but I failed to find any documentation about
/var/pkg/publisher/* content so it is unclear what manifests are
expected to be there, but I'd expect only manifests for packages and
versions that are installed on the system are there.

In any case, somebody should try to find (either documentation or in pkg
sources) what is supposed to be there.  If it is clear there are some
files leaking then we can start to look how to fix that.

Any idea how it works on OmniOS?

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