old files in /var/lib/rpm

[Panu Matilainen]

On 07/23/2012 06:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>
> Am 23.07.2012 17:39, schrieb Rex Dieter:
>> Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>> am i right that "Filedigests", "Filemd5s", "Provideversion",
>>> "Pubkeys" and "Requireversion" are unused fragments of older
>>> rpm/yum versions and can be removed?

Yes, they can be safely removed. Half of them were never used at all, 
the rest were of marginal use and have been dropped in rpm >= 4.9.

>> imo, just do a
>>
>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>> and all the old stuff should get cleared out on it's own
>
> no, that is why i am wondering that all other
> files execpt the listed ones get a new timestamp
> after "rpm --rebuilddb"

Yup. Generally anything that doesn't get updated on --rebuilddb is not 
used. Or even more generally: only the Packages file is vital. 
Everything else is just indexes which can be reconstructed from Packages 
with --rebuilddb (and current rpm versions actually regenerate missing 
indexes automatically)

	- Panu -