Re: How to prune out old rpm files from fedora repository?

[Ranbir]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:34 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I've used the repomanage tool to do this.  Something like this for one
> of my local repositories:
> repomanage --old $repo | while read package; do
>     dir=$(dirname "$package")
>     archive="$topdir/archive/$(basename $repo)"
>     [ ! -d $archive ] && mkdir -p $archive
>     mv "$package" $archive
> done

This is great, but how would one keep the nightly rsync against the yum
mirror from downloading again all of the RPMs that were pruned from the
local repo?  I looked through the rsync man page, but I didn't see
anything obvious that would apply here.

Regards,

Ranbir