yum clean bug

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> This is precisely the reason I dislike the current behavior - if I ask 
> yum to "clean all" I really expect it to clean ALL of the cache and not 
> leave old junk from disabled repos around, eating disk space.
> 
>> If this is really the way we want it to act, please clearly document 
>> that we need to add --enablerepo=* to clean disabled repos.
> 
> I guess can live with that, it just feels rather counterintuitive to me 
> to have to mess with repo settings to clean cache data. If somebody can 
> come up with a real, sane usage scenario why leaving disabled repos 
> alone on clean operations is a good idea it might help making it feel a 
> bit less odd. :)
> 

Problem with the yum --enablerepo=\* clean all approach as things are 
today, is that non-defined repos are NOT cleaned from this.

I can appreciate that people are using repo disabling for various things 
where cleaning the repo might not be desirable, so I guess i can live 
with the current behaviour for disabled repos.

Are there any good reason for not nuking non-existing yum repo cache 
entries? Apart from the fact that somebody else might have put data in 
there for something else? I mean /var/cache/yum, is still considered 
yum's, right? So deleting data that somebody put in there manually 
should not be a violation of anything, right?

anyone?

/Thomas