Question: how to keep /var/lib/yum/plugins/local small?

[Joachim Backes]

On 09/20/2010 03:16 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:28 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 09/15/2010 08:04 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> What plugins do you have installed? I only get:
>>>
>>> # pwd
>>> /var/lib/yum
>>> # du -hs *
>>> 1.2M	history
>>> 0	rpmdb-indexes
>>> 4.0K	uuid
>>> 9.0M	yumdb
>>>
>>
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> cd /var/lib/yum
>> sudo du -hs *
>> 4.6M	history
>> 3.8G	plugins
>> 296K	rpmdb-indexes
>> 4.0K	uuid
>> 19M	yumdb
>>
>> Installed yum plugins: yum-plugin-local (has not been installed
>> explictly, but automatically!)
>>
> 
> 1. yum-plugin-local is not installed automatically by anything
> 2. repomanage can help you keep the local repo to a reasonable size use:
> 
>     repomanage -o /var/lib/yum/plugins/local
>       that will print out a list of the 'old packages'
> 
>     then:
>        repomanage -o /var/lib/yum/plugins/local | xargs rm -f
>      will remove them.
> 
>     then:
>        createrepo -d --update /var/lib/yum/plugins/local
> 
>      will update the repo to remove those pkgs.

Hi Seth,

I'm sure I never applied consciously such commands as
repomanage or createrepo, nor installed yum-plugin-local  :-)

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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