Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I always upgrade my Fedora OS and this seems to have lead to a lot of
> old entries in my yumdb for old packages from previous versions of
> Fedora, which take quite a bit of space. Is there anything special I
> need to do to delete them or do I just use rm?
>
> Commands below suggest at about 3/4 of the entries are for old
> packages from previous versions of Fedora.
That's a lot, as this should only happen when transactions are
aborted before yum runs the cleanup on delete ... try this:
diff --git a/yumdb.py b/yumdb.py
index 8a4888e..ac683bf 100755
--- a/yumdb.py
+++ b/yumdb.py
@@ -7,8 +7,24 @@ import fnmatch
import yum
import shlex
+import os
+import glob
+
parser = None
+# FIXME: Internal knowledge
+def _load_all_package_paths(db_path):
+ # glob the path and get a dict of pkgs to their subdir
+ glb = '%s/*/*/' % db_path
+ pkgdirs = glob.glob(glb)
+ _packages = {}
+ for d in pkgdirs:
+ if d[-1] == '/':
+ d = d[:-1]
+ pkgid = os.path.basename(d).split('-')[0]
+ _packages[pkgid] = d
+ return _packages
+
def setup_opts():
version = "0.0.1"
vers_txt = "Manage yum groups metadata version %s" % version
@@ -183,6 +199,14 @@ def run_cmd(yb, args, inshell=False):
if ykey not in ndata:
continue
print " " * 4, ykey, '=', getattr(pkg.yumdb_info, ykey)
+ elif args[0] == 'extra':
+ yumdb_packages = _load_all_package_paths(yb.rpmdb.yumdb.conf.db_path)
+ for pkg in sorted(yb.rpmdb.returnPackages()):
+ if pkg.pkgid in yumdb_packages:
+ del yumdb_packages[pkg.pkgid]
+ for pkgid in yumdb_packages:
+ print "%s: %s" % (pkgid, yumdb_packages[pkgid])
+
elif args[0] == 'shell' and not inshell:
args.pop(0)
if args:
...those dirs. should be safe to just delete (rm -rf), we can look at
doing something to make it a bit easier.
--
James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx
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