[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

[Matthew R. Trower]

Hi Till,

To clarify, I only wish to share /var/pkg/publisher.  /var/pkg clearly 
contains image-specific data, and bad bad things would happen if that 
were shared.

Does your statement still apply specifically to /var/pkg/publisher?

-- Matthew R. Trower


On 1/12/24 12:25, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  From personal experience, Yes this data is kind of a cache. It is later 
> merged into the publisher independant JSON. However you MUST NOT share 
> this between BE's this directory is not safe to go back in time due to 
> how partial download and merging works. Do NOT share /var/pkg between BE's
> 
> -Till
> 
> On 12.01.2024 06:16, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is the format of /var/pkg/publisher committed at this point?  It looks 
>> to contain cached data and downloads from publishers, which ought not 
>> to be tied to any particular BE. If I create a ZFS dataset to share 
>> that among BEs, am I going to run into trouble?
>>
>> What exactly are the contents of /var/pkg/lost+found?  Can any files I 
>> discover in there be safely deleted?
>>
>>
>> -- Matthew R. Trower
>>
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