I have multiple F41 installations system-upgraded from F40, upgraded from F39, etc., and a few of F42 from F41. Now with DNF5 operational, is there any reason in F41+ for /var/cache/dnf/ to continue to exist? It has multiple files of considerable size.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net wrote:
I have multiple F41 installations system-upgraded from F40, upgraded from F39, etc., and a few of F42 from F41. Now with DNF5 operational, is there any reason in F41+ for /var/cache/dnf/ to continue to exist? It has multiple files of considerable size.
I would think you could get rid of them but until you get a more definitive answer, you can clean them out with:
sudo dnf4 clean all
That should clean out all the old dnf4 cruft.
It also looks like there may be both dnf4 and dnf5 files in /var/lib/dnf. It would be interesting to know if any of those can be deleted. Plus there are log files for both dnf versions in /var/log.
Charlie Dennett composed on 2025-03-06 15:19 (UTC-0500):
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM Felix Miata wrote:
I have multiple F41 installations system-upgraded from F40, upgraded from F39, etc., and a few of F42 from F41. Now with DNF5 operational, is there any reason in F41+ for /var/cache/dnf/ to continue to exist? It has multiple files of considerable size.
I would think you could get rid of them but until you get a more definitive answer, you can clean them out with:
sudo dnf4 clean all
That should clean out all the old dnf4 cruft.
That left 10.0MiB in packages.db, and no more than around 100k other. Nice improvement. :)
It also looks like there may be both dnf4 and dnf5 files in /var/lib/dnf. It would be interesting to know if any of those can be deleted. Plus there are log files for both dnf versions in /var/log.
On 3/6/25 3:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Charlie Dennett composed on 2025-03-06 15:19 (UTC-0500):
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM Felix Miata wrote:
I have multiple F41 installations system-upgraded from F40, upgraded from F39, etc., and a few of F42 from F41. Now with DNF5 operational, is there any reason in F41+ for /var/cache/dnf/ to continue to exist? It has multiple files of considerable size.
I would think you could get rid of them but until you get a more definitive answer, you can clean them out with:
sudo dnf4 clean all
That should clean out all the old dnf4 cruft.
That left 10.0MiB in packages.db, and no more than around 100k other. Nice improvement. :)
It also looks like there may be both dnf4 and dnf5 files in /var/lib/dnf. It would be interesting to know if any of those can be deleted. Plus there are log files for both dnf versions in /var/log.
I think, some time back, that I tried renaming /var/cache/dnf to something like /var/cache/dnf.save (for example) and it didn't impact anything at all. I still see /var/cache/dnf but it's empty.
All my systems are running the latest everything (updated automatically twice a day, including checking everything with rpm --verify), kernel is 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64.
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