Greetings ... >> I would like to run clean oldheaders/oldpackages once a week to >> clean out my yum cache, so that when I back it up, it does not take more >> than a CDR. > >yum clean packages > >doesn't that work? I am sure that it does, but I am looking for a script that cleans out packages that are old ... [leet@clee-taylor leet]$ ls /var/cache/yum/freshrpms/packages/grip-3.1.* /var/cache/yum/freshrpms/packages/grip-3.1.3-3.fr.i386.rpm /var/cache/yum/freshrpms/packages/grip-3.1.4-1.fr.i386.rpm I would like to keep all the new packages, but clean out/move older packages out of the cache directory so that when I do a backup of the cache directory, I get to keep only the lastest rpms, not all the updates between installation current ... > you could use tmpwatch That would remove all the files, I don't think it understands the version information in an rpm ... Thanks Mailed Lee
