On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, kenneth topp wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > > 5) what is the point of keeping .hdr files in /var/cache that are no > > > longer on the server? (debugging?, saves d/ling everything again if a repo > > > was flakey?) Whatever it is, it shouldn't be the default... > > > > yum clean old-headers. > > > > removing them each time doesn't really help all that much especially > > considering how little space they use and sometimes you'll find you're > > removing and deleting the same headers A LOT if you did it each time. > > > > well after a couple months I got up to 300MB, and cleaning it (just "yum > clean") got me down to 60MB. Why do you think I'd be removing the same > entries a lot? Perhaps there is a way that we can remove the files don't > correspond to files available on the server anymore? I don't see why yum > must require maintance. If you use yum clean as opposed to yum clean old-headers you are not only removing ALL headers you are removing copies of any rpms that got downloaded for install/upgrade. That is what takes up large amounts of space. The headers take up very little space. Of course if it really bothers you you could just do as I do and add yum clean packages to your daily cron job. I have a couple of low disk spare machines that are hard to access. Cleaning up the packages lying around after they are updated/installed helps the situation. In answer to your question about maintenance, I do not see any reason to add code to yum when it can be taken care of with a simple cron job. Some people might want to keep all of the packages dloaded on their machine for one reason or another. Just my $.02. -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
