Re: 3.3 gigs in /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata after dnf system-upgrade

[Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Il giorno mar, 27/12/2016 alle 14.32 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto:

Il giorno lun, 26/12/2016 alle 20.58 +0000, Schlaegel ha scritto:

What would be a good course of action?

After install a new Fedora 24, now 25, I do this step.

sudo systemctl mask dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit packagekit-offline-update 

sudo systemctl stop dnf-makecache dnf-makecache.timer packagekit packagekit-offline-update 

rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/*

And all still work.

Another way to avoid that PackageKit download tons of package, which it will never use and never remove, is:

sudo dnf remove PackageKit

rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/*

This remove also gnome-software, then, if you want a graphical software installer you can:

sudo dnf install yumex-dnf

This is bad advice. Breaking gnome-software just to avoid updates from being downloaded is the wrong hammer. Instead use,

[chris@f25h ~]$ gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false

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Chris Murphy

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