clear yum cache
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 20:07:41 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 13:58, Schlaegel wrote:
> > This means that it deletes the packages it's downloaded and installed
> > on your machine. It's a cache of what's been downloaded. It won't
> > download them again as they're already installed. Only newer versions
> > will be downloaded.
> >
> > Using yum clean headers will, however, force you to download all the
> > header files again so if you're looking to avoid downloading things
> > again, then avoid yum clean headers.
>
> I am in a similar situation. I use the same yum cache for two machines
> and am on a very slow link, so I don't ever want to delete the most
> recent version of a package. I also don't have a lot of extra disk
> space, so I don't like to keep around multiple versions of every
> package.
> I end up manually preening the cache by hand, which is far from ideal.
> I haven't had the time or bravery to experiment with the built in
> mechanism for cleaning the cache.
After you have updated the 2nd machine, a
yum clean packages
should do the right thing because they will already
be installed in both.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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