clear yum cache

[Jim Cornette]

Schlaegel wrote:

>On 12/3/05, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>You really should use yum clean packages.  It won't make you download
>>anything again.
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>>This means that it deletes the packages it's downloaded and installed
>>on your machine.  It's a cache of what's been downloaded.  It won't
>>download them again as they're already installed.  Only newer versions
>>will be downloaded.
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>>Using yum clean headers will, however, force you to download all the
>>header files again so if you're looking to avoid downloading things
>>again, then avoid yum clean headers.
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>I am in a similar situation. I use the same yum cache for two machines
>and am on a very slow link, so I don't ever want to delete the most
>recent version of a package. I also don't have a lot of extra disk
>space, so I don't like to keep around multiple versions of every
>package.
>I end up manually preening the cache by hand, which is far from ideal.
>I haven't had the time or bravery to experiment with the built in
>mechanism for cleaning the cache.
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>I look forward to anyone who knows some yum-fu to automate this.
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The idea to add an automated method to remove older version rpms while 
keeping all copies of updated packages sounds like an ideal default 
behavior for yum to follow. Keeping a copy of updated packages from the 
original disks while pruning the transitional versions would work for me.
I know of no current parameter for yum which would accomlish this. If 
none exists, maybe an RFE filed for yum would get attention to the idea.

Jim