yum clean bug

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:55:46PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/8/05, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > Yes. Because I'm doing cache operations, not repository operations. Or
> > rather, that's what I thought I was doing, so it would be intuitive to
> > me.
> 
> So for completeness what your saying is that you think
> yum clean packages   should clean all packages from all enabled and
> disabled repos by default?
> 
> and yum clean headers  should clean all headers from all enabled and
> disabled repos by default?

Yes. I often do that prior to backing up and/or imaging a system.

That's just my opinion, of course, and I can live with the current
behaviour (I always check /var for "deletable" data before backing
up/etc., anyway).

(Actually, I didn't even expect yum to check repository configuration.
Just to remove */headers, */packages, ...)

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