Pruning old vendor update packages?

[Jim Popovitch]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Ping!
> 
> My mirror just hit the ceiling. Why isn't something happening? It is
> just adding the --delete option to rsync, or to use the list I sent a
> week ago. I reported this over and over again, it's very frustrating.

How large is the partition holding all the files?  What rsync command 
are you using to sync your mirror?

-Jim P.

> 
> I now have to add includes/excludes to the rsync to my mirror, as such
> I'm no 100% mirror anymore.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> My mirror is hitting the ceiling in the FL mount, and I still see 2
>> 1/2 GB of such slack space. Would it help if I mail a list of the
>> packages to be deleted?
>>
>> Just to make it clear: I'm referring to old updates that were
>> obsoleted during RH's maintenance, e.g. which do not exist on
>> redhat.com anymore, because RH ships a newer one in its updates
>> folder. Last time I suggested this someone though that I was referring
>> to vendor packages that had been superceeded by FL, that's not the
>> case!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:37:47PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:18:48PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 17:06 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>>>> fedoralegacy.org does not remove old update packages. These make > 3GB
>>>>> for Fedora releases.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could that be fixed? Mirrors would be grateful, and the use of such
>>>>> before-EOL-obsoleted packages is very small.
>>>> Yes, I'm working w/ Red Hat on this one.  Currently the Yum version on
>>>> the master server is not new enough to use the yum-utils package.
>>> Thanks! Why do you need yum-utils? Doesn't rsync --delete do the job?
>>>
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