yum clean all
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Oct 31 16:01:24 UTC 2006
Steve G wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Should "yum clean all" really clean all or just the repos that are enabled?
>
> [root yum]# /root/bin/dir_usage | sort -n
> 1.4G updates
> 3.0M development-debuginfo
> 7.2M core
> 7.2M development
> 11M extras-development
> 36K anaconda
> 37M extras
> 64K brew
> 97M base
> 562M updates-released
> [root yum]# yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> [root yum]# /root/bin/dir_usage | sort -n
> 1.4G updates
> 7.2M core
> 24K brew
> 24K development-debuginfo
> 24K extras-development
> 36K anaconda
> 37M extras
> 97M base
> 200K development
> 562M updates-released
>
> There's several sizable directories for disabled repos that I was expecting it to
> have cleaned. Before I file a bug, is this the expected behavior?
Cleaning just the enabled repositories is a feature, not a bug. For
instance, sometimes I find that my local updates mirror has out of sync
metadata so I like to clean out the metadata for that specific repo with
"yum clean", without any other repos being affected.
Paul.
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