Clean up the up2date directory, /var partition?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 14:50 1/24/2004, you wrote:
>On or about 2004-01-24 12:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz whipped out a trusty #2 
>pencil and scribbled:
>>The /var/spool/up2date directory should contain .rpm files and .hdr 
>>files. I am 99% confident that nothing you delete will hurt the up2date 
>>process (and I am 100% sure that you won't damage the RPM database). I 
>>suggest you simply delete the .rpm files (which take up all the space) 
>>and leave the .hdr files since these are what up2date uses to determine 
>>what updates are available, what they depend on, and whether you need them.
>
><snip>
>
>Sound advice, but with a caveat I would add.  If you can keep a copy of 
>the files in /var/spool/up2date backed up somewhere (like a CD) it would 
>be somewhat handy if you ever have to reload Fedora, or if you want it 
>installed fresh on another computer.   Recall that when you install from 
>CDs, all of that 500 MB or so of updates needs to come from somewhere to 
>bring the system back up to date.  If you have a very high-speed 
>connection, perhaps it doesn't matter much, but if you have a 56k modem, 
>consider saving the rpm files.  You can reduce the size of the backup a 
>little be retaining only the latest versions of each package.

A most excellent point, and one which I neglected to mention. Thanks, Fritz.


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