Re: A question about yum

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Hi,

I remember all those IEF messages and a TON of others.

I liked the "Contact your Systems Programmer" but
never said what to do if you were the Systems Programmer.
And of course my favorite, "this page intentionally blank".

With all the stress in the world, it's good to have
this release in laughing at error messages. I DO
appreciate it.

keepcache=0 is set (and has been)

Older releases of FC, RHEL, CentOS would give messages
that files were removed. I do not recall seeing "yum clean
<anything>" saying that it removed files.

I'm looking in /var/cache/yum/plugins/local and see
a TON of rpms. Is it safe to remove them? Is this a
yum bug or a UFU (mine)? I do see messages during
installation like "Cleaning ..." but these rpms are
still present.

Regards and THANKS for your patience AND help,

George...

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 00:07 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum > clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but > now I'm seeing 0 files. > > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? If you've removed the files, why do you expect it to be able to remove any more? I seem to recall that Fedora's default for yum was not to cache packages that it's successfully managed to install, so it shouldn't be filling your drive up needlessly. Nonetheless, if that isn't a default, you can make it your preferred setting by putting a keepcache=0 into your yum.conf file. See the man file for more help, and be aware that Fedora may set their own defaults in the configuration files that different from the man files descriptions of defaults (for when no option was set in the configuration file). Once that keepcache=0 option's set, all that should be cached is the metadata about what's available on the server, for your next yum update or yum install. That's not a lot of filespace, and better for the servers if you do cache it. To that end, you're better to do yum clean packages, if you want to manually remove cached packages (to solve some problem with a package stuck in the cache) but keep the cached metadata. Rather than doing yum clean all, which throws everything away. And the converse, when something goes awry with doing a yum update or install, typically because you've hit a mirror that's a bit out of date, compared to the last time you accessed a mirror site, all you need to do is yum clean metadata. -- [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.


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