On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:28 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:10 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > > Is it true that anything left in /var/cache/yum after a > > > $ yum clean all --enablerepo='*' Shouldn't that be: $ yum --enablerepo=\* clean all Scott > > > is junk and can safely be removed? > > > > Yeah, heck, I even > > rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* > > from time to time. (-: > > In fact in principle, anything under /var/cache/* is cache data that can > be recreated if required by the "owning" program, so it should be safe > to delete the contents of any of the cache directories when the program > is not running. > > Paul. >
