Disable pkg cache

[Matthew Seaman]

On 09/15/14 14:54, kaltheat wrote:
> is it possible to disable local caching of packages?
> I have my own local repo and don't want to "pollute" each server in my environment with pkg cache.

Not -- the cache can't be disabled.  However, your concern about
'pollution' is misplaced.  The package cache won't overwrite package
foo-1.0.0.txz from repoA with foo-1.0.0.txz from repoB --- it knows
exactly which repository each cached package came from and it can keep
multiple copies from separate sources simultaneously.  The only reason
it would supercede any package is when it sees there is an update
available in the repository catalogue with a different checksum.  Even
then it keeps the older version of the package n hand.

Eg:  This is on my desktop.  You can see there are 4 different packages
for xscreensaver in the cache, covering three different versions of the
port.  The fourth will be due to a change in a dependency triggerring a
rebuild by poudriere.

# ls -l /var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3969844 Aug 29 00:49
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_2-32189fcfe9.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3971808 Aug  5 16:41
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_2-45c078f215.txz
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       34 Aug 29 10:43
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_2.txz@ ->
xscreensaver-5.29_2-32189fcfe9.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4010252 Aug 31 00:44
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_3-7cedad5fcc.txz
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       34 Sep  1 10:03
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_3.txz@ ->
xscreensaver-5.29_3-7cedad5fcc.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4008892 Sep 11 01:09
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_4-45227659e8.txz
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       34 Sep 11 09:22
/var/cache/pkg/xscreensaver-5.29_4.txz@ ->
xscreensaver-5.29_4-45227659e8.txz

PS.  If you're worried about the cache getting too big, that's not
usually a problem and even if it is, 'pkg clean' will sort thing out pronto.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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