smart package manager oddities

[Stefan Grosse]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:18:11 -0500 seth vidal
<skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
SV> > Unfortunately removing smart does not remove those files. So I
SV> > have to manually remove them. Why is yum not cleaning completely?

SV> yum is not cleaning completely? Or do you mean smart is not cleaning
SV> completely?

Sorry when I was not that clear. The bug in smart caused the contents
of /var/lib/smart/channels to grow especially with the
fedora-development-channel. This is because smart did not clean up
properly.

Now I thought that when I use yum to remove smart, it (yum) would
 clean/delete the files in /var/lib/smart/ as well. This was not the
 case. But maybe this is intentional? I am not an expert. 

In my case this leftover of smart was just a bit large (5GB) ...

Stefan

PS It seems that this smart bug is a duplicate and was fixed today
upstream.