yumdb

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

In Fedora 16, what are in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/p/
It looks like that is trace of old installed packages.
Can I clean the database?
yum clean packages did not really clean it.

Thank

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.03.2013 22:08, schrieb Patrick Dupre:
> In Fedora 16, what are in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/p/
> It looks like that is trace of old installed packages.
> Can I clean the database?
> yum clean packages did not really clean it

the first google hit:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumDB

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:08:45 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Fedora 16, what are in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/p/
> It looks like that is trace of old installed packages.
> Can I clean the database?
> yum clean packages did not really clean it.

You can remove everything _below_ /var/lib/yum/yumdb/ (which is for yumdb
from yum-utils) and also everything below /var/lib/yum/history/ (which is
for "yum history ...") but for the latter, you may get at least one Python
traceback upon trying to reinitialize the yum history (e.g. with "yum
history new").