Fedora Update RPMs

[James Wilkinson]

I wrote:
> Incidentally, my yum cache directory currently holds over 1 
> GB of updates!

Rich Burroughs wrote:
> You don't have to leave a gig of updates stitting around to use yum, 
> that's not required. Look at the man page:
> 
> http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/yum8.html
> 
>   yum clean packages
> 
> or
> 
>   yum clean all
> 
> And you can use up2date without saving the packages after they are 
> installed.

Yup. But on the other hand, I've got plenty of space in /var, and a
morbid curiosity as to how big this directory will grow...

I probably ought to bugzilla that against anaconda. Can anyone think of
a good reason to leave FC2 updates in /var/cache when upgrading to FC3?
Should anaconda clear them out anyway?

The point is not that it's easy to clear out /var/cache, but that it's
the sort of thing that shouldn't be necessary: where reasonable, a
system should be able to look after itself.

Fedora users shouldn't have to know that command.

James.

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