Yum -clean all........is that a bad thing?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:21 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Thu 28 Apr 2005 11:50, Red Hat wrote:
> 
> > >>Out of curiosity, I did an APT-GET CLEAN and it processed and went back
> > >>to a prompt with no messages or other indications at all.  I also did a
> > >>YUM CLEAN and got the following:
> > >>
> > >>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - core
> > >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms
> > >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - updates
> > >>Finding updated packages
> > >>Cleaning packages and old headers
> 
> > >I don't get a message like that.
> > >What version of yum are you using?
> >
> > 2.0.7  Is that up to date?
> 
> I have version 2.2.0 , but that may be a rawhide version.
> However, I don't recall "yum clean all" ever giving me any message
> except ones like
> ====================================
> [tim at martha ~]$ sudo yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> 0 headers removed
> 0 packages removed
> 6 metadata files removed
> 3 cache files removed
> ====================================

yum 2.0.7 is up to date for a Fedora Core 2 system.

yum 2.2.0 is up to date for a Fedora Core 3 system.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>