Camelia Lavender <cam@camelia.dev> wrote:
On 7/31/25 5:40 PM, Frank wrote:
Am Donnerstag, dem 31.07.2025 um 14:50 +0200 schrieb Uwe Sauter:
Hi,
for me this looks as the remains from an interrupted package update.
Everything below /var/cache/pacman/pkg is save to delete as long as no pacman process is currently running.
ok willremove
You could even automate that by running "paccache -rk2" after a system update to only keep the latest 2 versions of the downloaded / installed packages.
paccache does not delete any folders under /var/cache/pacman/pkg
I think that's normal, given that directories such as download-* are present only if the package download got interrupted (they therefore contain temporary files and not valid cached packages).
If the whole package file was downloaded before the process was interrupted then it is probably a valid package. They are valid package files if they were downloaded in full, and also the sig files verifies them. When downloading an update that conatins many packages, try to $ watch ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* -- u34
I usually remove these directories manually.
-- Sincerely,
Camelia Lavender (she/they) PGP: 0xDBCC70EFBC360E97