January 28, 201610 yr I'm new to 6.x - I've got some stuff in /boot/packages that I'm not sure about. Any idea if I need to keep this here or is this cruft from something? root@Tower:/boot/packages# ls total 13M drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jan 27 14:58 . drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4.0K Jan 28 08:41 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 225K Jan 3 21:49 apr-1.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 122K Jan 3 21:49 apr-util-1.5.3-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 437K Jan 3 21:49 freetype-2.5.0.1-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2.5M Jan 3 21:49 httpd-2.4.16-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2.6M Jan 3 21:49 libX11-1.6.2-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26K Jan 3 21:49 libXau-1.0.8-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47K Jan 3 21:49 libXdmcp-1.1.1-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73K Jan 3 21:49 libXpm-3.5.11-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 80K Jan 3 21:49 libmcrypt-2.5.8-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 409K Jan 3 21:49 libtool-2.4.2-x86_64-2.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 785K Jan 3 21:49 libxcb-1.9.1-x86_64-1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.5M Jan 3 21:49 net-snmp-5.7.2-x86_64-2.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3.3M Jan 3 21:49 php-ext-5.4.44-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 504K Jan 3 21:49 t1lib-5.1.2-x86_64-3.txz
January 28, 201610 yr Community Expert You didn't give us much information. Did you start fresh with ver 6.X or did you upgrade from an earlier version? What packages have you installed since you setup this system? (These files look like system files that unRAID will install every time the server is booted. This is the normal way that many third party packages get installed.)
January 28, 201610 yr Author You didn't give us much information. Did you start fresh with ver 6.X or did you upgrade from an earlier version? What packages have you installed since you setup this system? (These files look like system files that unRAID will install every time the server is booted. This is the normal way that many third party packages get installed.) I started fresh. I didn't know if /boot/packages was auto-installed at boot or if that was reserved for /boot/extra ?
January 28, 201610 yr Community Expert I started fresh. I didn't know if /boot/packages was auto-installed at boot or if that was reserved for /boot/extra ? Nothing in /boot/packages is automatically installed. In fact I think on a vanilla installation that folder is empty/missing and it gets populated by various plugins.
January 28, 201610 yr Community Expert I started fresh. I didn't know if /boot/packages was auto-installed at boot or if that was reserved for /boot/extra ? Nothing in /boot/packages is automatically installed. In fact I think on a vanilla installation that folder is empty/missing and it gets populated by various plugins. That's right. Since they are 64bit packages probably something from some plugins you have installed on v6.
January 28, 201610 yr Community Expert I see that the owner of the github for one of the packages was dmacias72. Search for that person as a member of this forum and you may be able to figure out what plugin installed these packages.
January 28, 201610 yr Author I started fresh. I didn't know if /boot/packages was auto-installed at boot or if that was reserved for /boot/extra ? Nothing in /boot/packages is automatically installed. In fact I think on a vanilla installation that folder is empty/missing and it gets populated by various plugins. That's the confirmation I was looking for. I'll move it off somewhere and give the system a reboot.
January 28, 201610 yr And if you haven't rebooted yet, run this from the shell: # grep boot/packages /boot/config/plugins/*plg The response should tell you what plugins have installed which files, so you'll know if they are safe to delete, remove directly My output /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.file.integrity.plg:<FILE Name="/boot/packages/inotify-tools-3.14-x86_64-1.txz" Run="upgradepkg --install-new"> /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.file.integrity.plg:<FILE Name="/boot/packages/b2sum-20130305-x86_64-1.txz" Run="upgradepkg --install-new"> /boot/config/plugins/powerdown-x86_64.plg:<FILE Name="/boot/packages/powerdown-&pkgversion;-noarch-unRAID.tgz" Run="CTRLALTDEL=YES upgradepkg --install-new"> /boot/config/plugins/powerdown-x86_64.plg:rm -f $(ls /boot/packages/&name;*.tgz 2>/dev/null | grep -v '&pkgversion;') /boot/config/plugins/powerdown-x86_64.plg:rm -f /boot/packages/powerdown-&pkgversion;-noarch-unRAID.tgz
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