Upgrading to 10alpha

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:38:55PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:13:40AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Jerry Amundson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Summerfield
> >> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >>> What it wants is to download 1.7 Gbytes of stuff. I don't have that much
> >>> free space[1], but mounting a USB drive is possible.
> >>
> >> You've left out quite a few details if a 1.7 GB problem requires a 320
> >> GB solution.
> >>
> >
> > See below, I need to buy a new drive and clone and retire the existing  
> > drive. There's no space for a new drive.
> 
> Well, another solution is "delete 1.7 GB of data".  You could for 
> example remove -devel packages (and definately debuginfo if you have 
> any):
> 
> yum remove \*-devel \*-debuginfo
> 
> and if that doesn't give enough space, consider temporarily removing 
> some applications to free up enough space to do the update, then put 
> them back after, e.g.:
> 
> yum groupremove 'Office/Productivity'
> 
> Check for huge logfiles in /var/log and delete or compress old ones, 
> etc.

And now I think of more ways to clean up:

yum install yum-utils
package-cleanup --cleandupes
package-cleanup --oldkernels
package-cleanup --orphans
package-cleanup --leaves