yum clean all doesn't seem to work

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:10 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 
> > Is it true that anything left in /var/cache/yum after a 
> >         $ yum clean all --enablerepo='*'
> > is junk and can safely be removed?
> 
> Yeah, heck, I even
> rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
> from time to time.  (-:

In fact in principle, anything under /var/cache/* is cache data that can
be recreated if required by the "owning" program, so it should be safe
to delete the contents of any of the cache directories when the program
is not running.

Paul.