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[Timothy Murphy]

Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Check out repomanage from yum-utils.  You could use it something like
> this to move old packages to an archive dir (or remove them):
> 
> repo=/path/to/cache
> archive=/path/to/archive
> repomanage --old $repo | while read package; do
>     mv "$package" $archive
> done

I didn't quite understand this.
If you wanted to remove the old packages
couldn't you just say "yum clean cache"?


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