I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
Thank you! It was a plugin, which is why I didn't see it. That will do the trick.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:40:46 +0100 Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
you could add the following to /etc/yum.conf "clean_requirements_on_remove=1"
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 20:40 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
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package-cleanup can also be useful in this context.
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
package-cleanup can also be useful in this context.
And let's not forget "yum history undo …", too, since it is the much cleaner solution for the occasional "install something to take a look and remove it again afterwards" scenario.
Pure leaf package removal bears the risk that you remove something that no other package depends on but _you_ need it.
Am 27.03.2013 13:33, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
package-cleanup can also be useful in this context.
And let's not forget "yum history undo …", too, since it is the much cleaner solution for the occasional "install something to take a look and remove it again afterwards" scenario.
Pure leaf package removal bears the risk that you remove something that no other package depends on but _you_ need it.
which can be easily optimized by a small meta-package and i maintain a bunch of them to have several machine types quickly installed and any unused package removed which makes upgrades and de-duplication-backups so much faster
last but not least you get rid by no longer required crap if you list there only base-packages without their specific deps and this is one reason why ton of years ago installed production servers are as clean as a fresh install __________________________
[root@rh:~]$ package-cleanup --leaves --all Loaded plugins: etckeeper, presto, protectbase lounge-rhsoft-extras-1.0-3.fc18.20130325.rh.noarch
[root@rh:~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l 1442
[root@rh:~]$ df Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 ext4 29G 6.1G 23G 21% / __________________________
[builduser@buildserver64:~]$ cat /rpmbuild/SPECS/lounge-rhsoft-workstation.spec Summary: metapackage for rhsoft workstation-packages Name: lounge-rhsoft-workstation Version: 4.2 Release: 3%{?dist} BuildArch: noarch Group: System Environment/Libraries URL: http://www.thelounge.net/ License: GPL BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
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%description metapackage for rhsoft workstation-packages
%files
%changelog * Sun Apr 29 2012 Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net - initial build
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:40:47 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
Pure leaf package removal bears the risk that you remove something that no other package depends on but _you_ need it.
which can be easily optimized by a small meta-package
Of course. That's common practice in some places. It also serves as a guard against not well-tested Obsoletes (or a packager introducing or reverting subpackages).
On 03/27/2013 09:33 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
yum list yum* yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
package-cleanup can also be useful in this context.
And let's not forget "yum history undo …", too, since it is the much cleaner solution for the occasional "install something to take a look and remove it again afterwards" scenario.
+10 !!
Pure leaf package removal bears the risk that you remove something that no other package depends on but _you_ need it.
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