svn commit: r46683 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Brad Davis <[email protected]>
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Author: brd
Date: Tue May 12 14:41:57 2015
New Revision: 46683
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46683
Log:
Update the pkg clean section to reflect that now expired packages are not kept in the cache.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Tue May 12 14:24:05 2015 (r46682)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Tue May 12 14:41:57 2015 (r46683)
@@ -893,13 +893,16 @@ Deinstalling ca_root_nss-3.15.1_1... don
<para>By default, <application>pkg</application> stores
binary packages in a cache directory defined by
- <envar>PKG_CACHEDIR</envar> in pkg.conf(5). When upgrading
- packages with <command>pkg upgrade</command>, old versions
- of the upgraded packages are not automatically removed.</para>
-
- <para>To remove these outdated binary packages, run:</para>
+ <envar>PKG_CACHEDIR</envar> in &man.pkg.conf.5;. Only copies
+ of the latest installed packages are kept. Older versions of
+ <application>pkg</application> kept all previous packages. To
+ remove these outdated binary packages, run:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg clean</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The entire cache may be cleared by running:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg clean -a</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-set">
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