Re: [Gumstix-users] ipkg update uses all my space

[Jostein A. J. <jos...@st...>]

Solved.

I made a backup, then took a chance and deleted it. I rebooted to make sure
everything still works fine and it worked, so now I've got 7.2MB free
again.

-Jostein

2009/5/12 Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <jos...@st...>

> My /var/lib/ipkg/base claims to be 215 MB big. Is this normal? Can I delete
> it?
> -Jostein
>
> 2009/5/12 Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <jos...@st...>
>
> I got my gumstix online for the first time (until now I've had to transfer
>> ipk's using a usb-stick) and so I ran "ipkg update". First it spent some
>> time downloading Packages.gz, and then it inflated it whereupon it failed.
>> I'm left with 440k space, instead of the little over 7M I had earlier and if
>> I try running "ipkg update" again it segfaults.
>> How do I clean up the files that "ipkg update" downloaded?
>>
>> Regards
>> Jostein
>>
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