| From: stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your useful response. But there are still things that puzzle/annoy me. | On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:22:36 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | | > On my Fedora 23 | > systems, /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages is full | > of .rpm files. For example, 2.7G on my desktop. | > /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages has some too. | > "sudo dnf clean packages" doesn't seem to change this. What does it | > change? | | The dnf package storage is cleared. PackageKit is independent of | dnf. Isn't dnf the user interface to PackageKit? "man PackageKit" points to pkmon and pkcon, both with the identical description: "PackageKit console client". One of those is wrong. In any case, those commands don't seem to have knobs to adjust PackageKit hoarding instincts. | > What is the purpose of this directory of RPMs? | | Saved in case of problems. What kind of problems? Perhaps they are used to reduce the size of download (so only a difference needs to be transferred). In any case, lots of the saved RPMs are obsoleted by other saved RPMs. That seems like a waste. So I deleted all the obsolete ones and saved a lot of space. I only bothered with /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages so far. That saved me almost 2G! Here's how I did it. Not quite a script yet. cd /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages # create a list of installed RPM files rpm -qa | sed -e 's/$/.rpm/' | sort >~/0installed # create a list of hoarded files ls >~/0saved # create a list of files that are obsoleted diff ~/0saved ~/0installed | sed -n -e 's/^< //p' >~/0obsolete # Exercise for the reader: delete files list in ~/0obsolete # This is the first step that requires root. # Note: ~/ means something different for each user. Before I did this, "dnf update" failed due to lack of space. After, it just worked. So I guess PackageKit isn't upset by files just disappearing from this directory. | > Is there a way of transplanting the RPMs to another system so that | > downloading could be avoided? | | rsync them into /var/cache/dnf/[hashed directory entry]/packages/ Thanks. That seems a little hacky so I won't bother. | > What is the proper way of deleting these RPMs to free up the space? I | > ask because on some machines (but not all) the space is burdensome. | | There is a setting in the file | /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf | | # Keep the packages after they have been downloaded | #KeepCache=false Thanks. It didn't seem to affect old files (it didn't buy back space that I needed for "dnf update"). I didn't try to debug this. Perhaps because PackageKit is a daemon and I didn't tap it on the shoulder to reload the config. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
