SOLVED - Delete rpm repackage files

[Craig Goodyear]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:18:09 -0500, Craig Goodyear wrote:
>>
>>>> Craig Goodyear wrote:
>>>
>>>>> > I have a large number of files in the /var/spool/repackage 
>>>>> directory.  I > would like to thin out some of the files.  Will I 
>>>>> cause future problems > by using rm?  What is the proper way to 
>>>>> remove some of the rollback files?
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions of where to look to find more 
>>>> information about maintaining rpm's rollback function.  I currently 
>>>> have several versions of the same packages in /var/spool/repackage.
>>>>
>>>> Will using rm to delete select version cause any problems in the rpm 
>>>> database?
>>
>> No. Just forget about that repackage feature and downgrade manually
>> if necessary (rpm --oldpackage -Uvh).
>>
> Disagree (or you're answering a different question than what was 
> asked).  The repackage files should just be rpm files that have had the 
> contents slightly altered; probably to remove something like multiple 
> updates of the same config file.  You *should* be able to safely delete 
> the repackaged rpm file since any subsequent update should start over 
> again with just the rpms in the next transaction.  Even if I'm wrong, at 
> worst the repackager would need to recreate the previous repackaging.
> 
> Not sure what happens if you decide to remove a "repackaged" rpm.  The 
> rpm database should only have the contents from after the repackaging.  
> Hopefully, whoever came up with the repackaging idea thought of this too 
> and eveything "just works."
> 
> Dave
> 

Dave, thanks for the reply.  I went ahead and deleted some of the files 
in the /var/spool/repackage directory.  Then running
"up2date --list-rollbacks" reflected the deletions that I had made. 
Subsequent system updates using both yum and up2date have worked without 
any errors.  It appears that manually deleting the rpm's in 
/var/spool/repackage is acceptable.

Craig