On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:57 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote: > a proof of $Subject: Which yum, and which release of Fedora? > [nico@nico2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8 > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8 [tim@suspishus abc891]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc7 > [root@nico2 ~]# du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.* > 6,8M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6 > 20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8 > 43M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9 [tim@suspishus abc891]$ du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.* 20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5 20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8 45M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9 The first two just have plugins directories inside them, and symlinks to the flashplayer plugin inside the plugins directory. I'd imagine that since I had installed a plugins, that firefox updates didn't remove prior firefox directories. > Why aren't these files removed? Don't know. Without seeing a listing of what's in yours, we can't tell why it's still there. You might have had a failure during an update, there might be something in there that ought to be kept. > I run yum clean all regularly. That's to do with the yum download cache, not the installed files. > Is there a way to purge entirely old packages? Manual file deletions... -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
