yum problems

Homer hparker at homershut.net
Fri Mar 12 14:34:28 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:03, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
> Homer,
> 
> I use up2date and rather than yum, but I suspect your equivalent to
> /var/spool/up2date/ is full of stale rpm and hdr files. From time to time
> I clear out all those files before running up2date. Also, if you like to
> experiment with new kernels like I do, check /usr/src/ for old source
> trees. These two bits of housekeeping can free up a surprising amount of
> space on your root filesystem.
> 

	I did that, but afterwards... My problem is, I thought yum checked for
file space to make sure this didn't happen.. And, if it's supposed to,
there's a problem in it..

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