SOLVED Re: rm and old rpms

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 07:29:05 UTC 2010


On 20/09/10 02:15, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Thanks, just looking at that now.
May be the simpler way

>> Does this look ok?
>> find /path/local.repo/*.rpm  -mtime +200 -exec rm {} \;
>
> I'm a fan of xargs and avoiding -exec when possible,

Havn't got as far as xargs in my learning curve yet.


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