Manage software with yum

[Tim]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> One of the big users of disk space is yum's cache. The command
> yum clean packages will delete the cache of packages that yum has
> downloaded (normally it stores a copy of everything it downloads). The
> command yum clean all deletes everything yum has deleted, which means
> it will have to re-download headers next time you do a yum update.

Which may take a very long time, and the obvious remedy is to not do
that, but manually delete the RPMs, leaving the headers alone, in
the /var/cache/yum/name-of-repo/packages/ directories.

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