[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg folder size escalated

[Stephan Althaus]

On 5/18/23 07:22, Goetz T. Fischer wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> after a fresh indiana installation and removing a couple of packages my /var/pkg folder is more than
> 700mb! doing comparable things with solaris 11.4 leaves me with a /var/pkg size of less than 200.
> how can i clean that up safely and how can i keep it from escalating again in the future?
>
> thanks in advance for any help
>
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Hello!

Uuh, my laptop has 35.2G in  /var/pkg,
my tiny server has 23.5G.
Both are installations from ~5(?) years ago..

Yes, it would be nice if that is (automatically) cleaned up after a pkg 
update.

Regards,
Stephan