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tckosvic
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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:27 pm Post subject: what utility cleans /var/db/pkg -- keeps accruing sources |
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Directory /var/db/pkg keeps accruing older sources for kernels and all other packages as far as I can see. E.G., the sys-kernel subdirectory of /var/db/pkg has 12 sets of old kernel file sources in it.
I am only a short term user on a vm but it looks like this directory could chew up alot of disk space if not cleaned. It is a major disk use directory in my vm; that is how I found it.
Is there a utility that removes some of this? I assume manual deletion will not hurt .
thanks, tom kosvic |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I think you are looking for eclean. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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tckosvic,
Portage cleans /var/db/pkg.
That's where portage keeps track of everything that is installed, how it was built and so on.
Look but don't touch. That's portages mind.
Entries are added when packages are emerged and removed when portage is used to remove a package. e.g. with --depclean.
If you remove kernel sources from /usr/src without using portage, portage won't update it's database and they will still be listed there.
| Code: | | emerge -ca gentoo-sources:<slot> |
will case portage to remove gentoo-sources:<slot> from /usr/src it its there and from /var/db/pkg regardless.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| tckosvic wrote: | Directory /var/db/pkg keeps accruing older sources for kernels and all other packages as far as I can see. E.G., the sys-kernel subdirectory of /var/db/pkg has 12 sets of old kernel file sources in it.
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Tom, if there's actual kernel source, rather than a lot of files containing information gleaned from ebuilds, you have a mis-configured portage setup. Package source files should (by default) be in /var/cache/distfiles. here's my list of stuff in sys-kernel for linux-firmware (I build my kernels on another machine, so there's no kernel source ebuild present):
| Code: | paul@hp ~ $ ls /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20230804/
BINPKGMD5 CC COUNTER DEFINED_PHASES FEATURES IUSE_EFFECTIVE linux-firmware-20230804.ebuild QA_PREBUILT SIZE
BUILD_TIME CFLAGS CXX DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE KEYWORDS NEEDED RDEPEND SLOT
CATEGORY CHOST CXXFLAGS EAPI INHERITED LDFLAGS NEEDED.ELF.2 repository USE
CBUILD CONTENTS DEBUGBUILD environment.bz2 IUSE LICENSE PF RESTRICT
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You may be seeing several sets of files like that for different kernels - that's because currently Gentoo has slotted ebuilds for many kernels, such as long-term-stable versions. But those files are not the kernel source - that's a whole lot more - several hundred MB. In this case, that lot above comes to just 390 KB of data extracted from the ebuild, whereas the linux firmware source files are over 100 MB.
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You shouldn't be seeing several sets of files like that. I was conflating /var/db/pkg - the portage cache of ebuild information for installed packages, with /var/db/repos/gentoo - the entire portage package tree. So if you are seeing lots of source files, you definitely have a misconfigured portage system (see /etc/portage/make.conf settings, by default) that's putting package source in /var/db/pkg, and that's just wrong! As mentioned earlier, it should be /var/cache/distfiles by default.)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| If you still need help, please show us what you see. Do not summarize it. Show us the commands you ran and what they printed. |
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tckosvic
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Directory /var/db/pkg does show files similar to those shown by @Goverp. My error, I thought those were source code.
Directory /var/cache/distfiles does show a myriad of *.tar.gz files that must be the source codes.
My system must be set up properly. Thanks for the insights.
15 yr openSUSE user that is exploring gentoo and learning.
tom kosvic |
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