Schlaegel wrote:
On 12/3/05, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You really should use yum clean packages. It won't make you download
anything again.
...
This means that it deletes the packages it's downloaded and installed
on your machine. It's a cache of what's been downloaded. It won't
download them again as they're already installed. Only newer versions
will be downloaded.
Using yum clean headers will, however, force you to download all the
header files again so if you're looking to avoid downloading things
again, then avoid yum clean headers.
I am in a similar situation. I use the same yum cache for two machines
and am on a very slow link, so I don't ever want to delete the most
recent version of a package. I also don't have a lot of extra disk
space, so I don't like to keep around multiple versions of every
package.
I end up manually preening the cache by hand, which is far from ideal.
I haven't had the time or bravery to experiment with the built in
mechanism for cleaning the cache.
I look forward to anyone who knows some yum-fu to automate this.
The idea to add an automated method to remove older version rpms while
keeping all copies of updated packages sounds like an ideal default
behavior for yum to follow. Keeping a copy of updated packages from the
original disks while pruning the transitional versions would work for me.
I know of no current parameter for yum which would accomlish this. If
none exists, maybe an RFE filed for yum would get attention to the idea.
Jim
