rm and old rpms

[Todd Zullinger]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> Looking for a method to remove old rpms from a local repo using
> mtime, as *fcX cannot be used in this instance.
>
> It will end up being run as a daily cron job.

I don't know what the end goal is, but you may have better luck using
repomanage to prune old packages, yet keep the last N versions.  If
you have a local repository you want to keep from growing, that's
often preferable to just removing old packages.

> Does this look ok?
> find /path/local.repo/*.rpm  -mtime +200 -exec rm {} \;

I'm a fan of xargs and avoiding -exec when possible, since it spawns a
new shell process for each file.  But for this particular usage, if I
wasn't using repomanage (or another rpm specific tool), I'd use
tmpwatch rather than roll my own solution with find.

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