yum doesn't work as expected with "clean"

[Bill Davidsen]

William Hooper wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Bill Davidsen<davidsen at tmr.com>  wrote:
>> The "yum clean packages" command removes all cached rpms as desired, but leaves
>> all the drpm files. I wondered why my disk space was getting tight on a small
>> server, and that was the issue. Is that intended behavior?
>
> It appears to already be reported:
>
> https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568504
>
> I wonder if "yum clean plugins" will remove them?
>
>
yum clean metadata

But that cleans the big file lists and such as well, which may or may not be 
desired behavior. Over a relatively slow network, probably not.

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