smart package manager oddities

[Bill Crawford]

On Thursday 22 January 2009 12:56:23 Stefan Grosse wrote:

> Sorry when I was not that clear. The bug in smart caused the contents
> of /var/lib/smart/channels to grow especially with the
> fedora-development-channel. This is because smart did not clean up
> properly.
...
> In my case this leftover of smart was just a bit large (5GB) ...

Sounds like a side-effect of the change to use different filenames with the 
content hash in for the metadata. Smart will need modifying to throw those away 
once they are no longer needed ...