Re: Cleaning /var/lib/dnf/yumdb

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> On 29 Jun 2022, at 14:12, stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:31:51 +1000
> "Michael D. Setzer II via users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Are files in /var/lib/dnf/yumdb of any use??
>> Dates of files and directories seem to all be June 20 2019 
>> and seem to be for Fedora 29 and earlier.
>> Machine is currently running Fedora 35??
>> 
>> Is there a command to clean them correctly.
>> Are the just leftovers from pervious versions.
>> dnf autoremove didn't do anything.
> 
> You could run
> rpm -qf /var/lib/dnf/[one of the files]
> to see if it belongs to any currently installed package.

That good advice generally, but I think suspect that yumdb is part of the databases used to track I stallled software, so that command is unlikely to help.

Barry

> There is a yum
> package today, but it just installs a link to dnf.  If you have
> dnf-utils installed, you can run 
> package-cleanup orphans 
> to list packages that are no longer available from current
> repositories.  You could then just remove them.  If you don't find any
> packages that own those files, you could just remove them manually as
> they are outside of package management.
> 
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