Question: how to keep /var/lib/yum/plugins/local small?

[Joachim Backes]

On 09/15/2010 09:30 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 05:28 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 09/15/2010 08:04 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> What plugins do you have installed? I only get:
>>>
>>> # pwd
>>> /var/lib/yum
>>> # du -hs *
>>> 1.2M	history
>>> 0	rpmdb-indexes
>>> 4.0K	uuid
>>> 9.0M	yumdb
>>>
>>
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> cd /var/lib/yum
>> sudo du -hs *
>> 4.6M	history
>> 3.8G	plugins
>> 296K	rpmdb-indexes
>> 4.0K	uuid
>> 19M	yumdb
>>
>> Installed yum plugins: yum-plugin-local (has not been installed
>> explictly, but automatically!)
>>
> 
> Hmmmm - I didn't get that plugin installed - nor is it really required 
> unless you want it... Remove the plugin and you can probably remove the 
> plugins directory completely with no loss of functionality...

Oops! But now, no more yum downgrade for some pkg is possible!

> 
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> Steven Haigh
> 
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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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