On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:52:11PM +0100, Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage 
Architect wrote:

> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect wrote:
> > > Shawn Walker wrote:
> > > > /var/pkg/pkg is where the manifests for packages are kept.
> > >
> > > Does that need to be 5GB in size?
> >
> After about 20 minutes this came back:
> 3.8G

Yeah, /var/pkg/pkg can get pretty large, too.  It's about 700MB on my
system, and 1.4GB on a colleague's system (where redistributable is
installed, as well as a long history).  License files are stored here as
well, and they can get rather large, given how some of our packages are
structured.

I believe we have bugs open for managing this directory better than we
currently are.  We don't have any tools available for this, but if you want
to remove subdirectories from this directory, you can -- just be sure that
you don't remove anything corresponding to an installed package, as that
may severely damage your system.  For safety, take a snapshot before doing
anything like that.

Danek
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