On 03/26/09 18:52, Dave Miner wrote: > jan damborsky wrote: >> On 03/25/09 20:51, Shawn Walker wrote: >>> Dave Miner wrote: >>>> I don't believe there's a way to not populate the download cache, >>>> but it will be cleaned up after the package installation if the >>>> image has the flush-content-cache-on-success property set to True. >>>> So we do need to include some overhead in the calculation to >>>> account for it, and perhaps 20% isn't too far off ;-) >>> The files have to be stored somewhere before installation starts, >>> the download cache just happens to be that place. If, as Dave >>> pointed out, you have flush-content-cache-on-success set to True, >>> you've essentially turned the download cache into a fancy /tmp >>> directory. >> >> If I understand correctly, there is no need to have that >> data on installed system ? If this is the case then I think >> we would like to allow IPS clean up that cache after bits are >> installed, since it consumes ~1GB on disk. >> Dave, do you think it is appropriate to file bug for this ? >> > > Yes, file the bug; it may be optional behavior, since at some point > zones installation may make use of it.
I have filed 7735 AI should take care of cleaning up pkg(5) download cache Jan
