pkg delete query

[balanga]

If I run pkg delete -a does that clean out the the pkgs from /var/cache/pkg, and if not, would a pkg install attempt to fetch them from cache?

I'm doing some testing which involves installing a number of pkgs and want to avoid downloading them repeatedly to establish a clean environment.

 

[Charlie_]

pkg-delete(8) does not clear cache.
Use pkg-add(8) filename, instead of pkg-install(8).
Use pkg-install(8) --fetch-only, then pkg-add(8) filename.
pkg-install(8)

Packages are fetched from the repositories into the local package cache if they are not already present,​

 

[SirDice]

pkg-clean(8) cleans out the cache, pkg-delete(8) deletes installed packages. pkg-delete(8) doesn't remove the package from the cache.

So, pkg install somepackage would download (to the cache) and install somepackage. If you pkg delete somepackage that installed package would be removed. If you do pkg install somepackage again it would get installed from the cache, because it was already downloaded with the previous pkg-install(8).