freebsd-update housekeeping?

[Neil Long]

Hi

Just noticed how large /var/db/freebsd-update has grown on a box I
just upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 (but I can't recall when I started using
it).

Is there a recommended approach or just rm the directory if I have no
need to roll it back?

Thanks
Neil

[andrew clarke]

Before I upgraded to 7.4-REL I used rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/ as
my /var is "only" 1 GB and was running low on free space. Doing this
should be no different to a fresh install where this directory is
initially empty anyway.

Of course if you're still wary you could make a tarball backup of that
directory somewhere else before emptying it out.

IIRC, freebsd-update will complain if /var/db/freebsd-update/ doesn't
exist, so you may need to mkdir it after using rm -rf.

Regards
Andrew
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[Jason Helfman]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:25:47AM +1100, andrew clarke thus spake:

If there were no problems with your update, then it is safe to remove the
directory, and recreate it. If your update didn't go so well, you will lose
the ability to use the 'rollback' feature, which will uninstall previously
applied update.

-jgh

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