At 14:50 1/24/2004, you wrote:
On or about 2004-01-24 12:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz whipped out a trusty #2
pencil and scribbled:
The /var/spool/up2date directory should contain .rpm files and .hdr
files. I am 99% confident that nothing you delete will hurt the up2date
process (and I am 100% sure that you won't damage the RPM database). I
suggest you simply delete the .rpm files (which take up all the space)
and leave the .hdr files since these are what up2date uses to determine
what updates are available, what they depend on, and whether you need them.
<snip>
Sound advice, but with a caveat I would add. If you can keep a copy of
the files in /var/spool/up2date backed up somewhere (like a CD) it would
be somewhat handy if you ever have to reload Fedora, or if you want it
installed fresh on another computer. Recall that when you install from
CDs, all of that 500 MB or so of updates needs to come from somewhere to
bring the system back up to date. If you have a very high-speed
connection, perhaps it doesn't matter much, but if you have a 56k modem,
consider saving the rpm files. You can reduce the size of the backup a
little be retaining only the latest versions of each package.
A most excellent point, and one which I neglected to mention. Thanks, Fritz.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.simpaticus.com
