Revisiting pruning of updates directories

[Jim Popovitch]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 15:57 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> What exactly would be pruned?   Saving space sounds like a great idea as 
>> long as it is useless stuff we are deleting.
> 
> Updates that have been obsoleted by newer updates (from Red Hat).
> Before Red Hat closes down a release they usually run a prune that
> deletes all/most the obsoleted updates.  When I was syncing the FC trees
> (and possibly the RH trees) I may not have gotten the prune deletions.
> By doing a comparison against a public mirror for the FC content I count
> 149 packages alone in the FC1 i386 updates directory that could be
> removed.

Ahh, makes perfect sense then.  Thanks.

-Jim P.