Yum -clean all........is that a bad thing?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thu 28 Apr 2005 11:50, Red Hat wrote:

> >>Out of curiosity, I did an APT-GET CLEAN and it processed and went back
> >>to a prompt with no messages or other indications at all.  I also did a
> >>YUM CLEAN and got the following:
> >>
> >>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - core
> >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms
> >>Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - updates
> >>Finding updated packages
> >>Cleaning packages and old headers

> >I don't get a message like that.
> >What version of yum are you using?
>
> 2.0.7  Is that up to date?

I have version 2.2.0 , but that may be a rawhide version.
However, I don't recall "yum clean all" ever giving me any message
except ones like
====================================
[tim at martha ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
6 metadata files removed
3 cache files removed
====================================

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