yum clean bug

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:59:34PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 23:51 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 15:55 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > On 12/8/05, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > > > Yes. Because I'm doing cache operations, not repository operations. Or
> > > > rather, that's what I thought I was doing, so it would be intuitive to
> > > > me.
> > > 
> > > So for completeness what your saying is that you think
> > > yum clean packages   should clean all packages from all enabled and
> > > disabled repos by default?
> > > 
> > > and yum clean headers  should clean all headers from all enabled and
> > > disabled repos by default?
> > 
> > Well, I actually think it should.
> 
> 
> Seriously? That seems completely backward to me.
> 
> it's like saying rsync --exclude=/some/path should not actually exclude
> that path.
> 
> or that a disabled samba share shouldn't ACTUALLY be disabled.

Bad analogies. We're talking about cache data.

I don't even understand why is it necessary to gather repositories
configuration.

Don't forget that current behaviour makes it unable to delete cache for
repositories no longer configurated. Unless by hand.

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lfr
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