Archive for 'Solaris Package Management'

Cleaning up space used by the OpenSolaris pkg utility

I’ve been experimenting with the new OpenSolaris package manager (pkg), and ran into an odd issue last weekend. The flash drive I was running image-update on filled up, and after poking around I noticed that /var/pkg had some large directories: $ cd /var/pkg $ du -sh * 4.6M catalog 1.5K cfg_cache 892M download 1.5K file [...]