Manage software with yum

[Joao Paulo Pires]

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:16:53 +0000 




 

From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 


 

Subject: Re: Manage software with yum 


 

 


 

Tim wrote: 


 

> James Wilkinson wrote: 


 

> 


 

>>One of the big users of disk space is yum's cache. The command 


 

>>yum clean packages will delete the cache of packages that yum has 


 

>>downloaded (normally it stores a copy of everything it downloads). The 


 

>>command yum clean all deletes everything yum has deleted, which means 


 

>>it will have to re-download headers next time you do a yum update. 


 

> 


 

> Which may take a very long time, and the obvious remedy is to not do 


 

> that, but manually delete the RPMs, leaving the headers alone, in 


 

> the /var/cache/yum/name-of-repo/packages/ directories. 


 

Or simply do "yum clean packages", which deletes the rpms but not the 


 

metadata (headers). Paul. 
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In fact I used today "yum clean all". Any problem deleting metadata (headers)? Best regards, Joao.
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