yum doesn't remove old package files

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Thursday 29 November 2007 13:11:44 Tim ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:57 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > a proof of $Subject:
>
> Which yum, and which release of Fedora?

FC8, yum-3.2.7-1.fc8
>
> > [nico at nico2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
> > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
> > firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
>
> [tim at suspishus abc891]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
> firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc7
>
> > [root at nico2 ~]# du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.*
> > 6,8M    /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6
> > 20K     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8
> > 43M     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9
>
> [tim at suspishus abc891]$ du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.*
> 20K     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5
> 20K     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8
> 45M     /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9
>
> The first two just have plugins directories inside them, and
> symlinks to the flashplayer plugin inside the plugins directory. 
> I'd imagine that since I had installed a plugins, that firefox
> updates didn't remove prior firefox directories.

shouldn't the rpm scripts move the plugins to the new directory?

>
> > Why aren't these files removed?
>
> Don't know.  Without seeing a listing of what's in yours, 

sorry, I deleted them

> we can't 
> tell why it's still there.  You might have had a failure during an
> update, there might be something in there that ought to be kept.
>
> > I run yum clean all regularly.
>
> That's to do with the yum download cache, not the installed files.
>
> > Is there  a way to purge entirely old packages?
>
> Manual file deletions...
>

I bet that yum is supposed to do it, not the user :)