I wrote: > Incidentally, my yum cache directory currently holds over 1 > GB of updates! Rich Burroughs wrote: > You don't have to leave a gig of updates stitting around to use yum, > that's not required. Look at the man page: > > http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/yum8.html > > yum clean packages > > or > > yum clean all > > And you can use up2date without saving the packages after they are > installed. Yup. But on the other hand, I've got plenty of space in /var, and a morbid curiosity as to how big this directory will grow... I probably ought to bugzilla that against anaconda. Can anyone think of a good reason to leave FC2 updates in /var/cache when upgrading to FC3? Should anaconda clear them out anyway? The point is not that it's easy to clear out /var/cache, but that it's the sort of thing that shouldn't be necessary: where reasonable, a system should be able to look after itself. Fedora users shouldn't have to know that command. James. -- E-mail address: james | ...a probably apocryphal bilingual sign in darkest @westexe.demon.co.uk | North Wales. In English it says "70mph" and in Welsh | "slow down, sharp bend ahead". | -- Peter Corlett
