yum clean bug

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> On Ven 9 décembre 2005 11:26, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>>> unknown repos, should still, IMO, have their caches removed, no
>>> questions asked.
>> How is yum supposed to know, that this is data from a repository, if
>> there's no configuration for the repository anymore? Just because it
>> lives under /var/cache/yum?
> 
> Yes. That's the whole point of having an app-specific dir.
> Alternatively if yum wants a persistent cache, it should be moved to
> /var/spool
> 

I have to agree with this completely!

That said, /var/spool stuff should not just be left there for good 
either. If there are things in yum's cache dir that yum does not know 
about, by all means, get rid if it at first given chance.

/Thomas