yum-software-management yum-software-management-en.xml,1.15,1.16

Stuart Ellis (elliss) fedora-docs-commits at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 20:48:51 UTC 2005


Author: elliss

Update of /cvs/docs/yum-software-management
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv16849

Modified Files:
	yum-software-management-en.xml 
Log Message:

- Broke out "Removing Public Keys" to a separate section.



Index: yum-software-management-en.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/docs/yum-software-management/yum-software-management-en.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.15 -r1.16
--- yum-software-management-en.xml	19 Jul 2005 19:42:22 -0000	1.15
+++ yum-software-management-en.xml	19 Jul 2005 20:48:48 -0000	1.16
@@ -1103,8 +1103,8 @@
       maintenance. It is useful to disable or remove repository
       definitions that are no longer required, as each repository that
       is defined and enabled is checked for every operation. You may
-      also remove files relating to unwanted packages, in order to
-      recover disk space.
+      also clear the files from the <command>yum</command> caches in
+      order to recover disk space.
     </para>
 
     <section id="sn-removing-sources">
@@ -1141,19 +1141,28 @@
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </orderedlist>
+      <important>
+        <title>Remove Unneeded Public Keys</title>
+
+        <para>
+          If you will not be using any further packages from a provider,
+          remove their public key from the <command>rpm</command>
+          keyring using the procedure described in
+          <xref linkend="sn-removing-publickeys" />.
+        </para>
+      </important>
+    </section>
+
+    <section id="sn-removing-publickeys">
+      <title>Removing Public Keys</title>
       <indexterm>
         <primary>public keys, removing</primary>
       </indexterm>
       <para>
-        In addition, remove the public key for the package provider from
-        the <command>rpm</command> keyring, if you will not be using any
-        more packages from that source.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-        To remove a public key from the keyring you must know the
-        identification name used by <command>rpm</command>. Run this
-        command to view the details of the public keys on the keyring:
+        To remove a public key from the keyring you first must determine
+        the full name of the key, as it registered in
+        <command>rpm</command>. Run this command to view the details of
+        the public keys on the <command>rpm</command> keyring:
       </para>
 <screen>
 <userinput>rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-*</userinput>
@@ -1213,8 +1222,8 @@
       <para>
         By design, <command>yum</command> does not automatically delete
         any of the packages or package data files that it downloads, so
-        that these can be reused. The header files accumulate over time,
-        and these may be purged with the command:
+        that they may be reused in future operations. To purge the
+        header files, use the command:
       </para>
 <screen>
 <userinput>su -c 'yum clean headers'</userinput>
@@ -1231,6 +1240,12 @@
         <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> account when
         prompted.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Package management operations download header files and packages
+        as required, automatically replacing any purged files needed for
+        the operation.
+      </para>
     </section>
   </section>
 




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