yum clean all doesn't seem to work

[Oldman]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:28 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:10 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it true that anything left in /var/cache/yum after a 
> > >         $ yum clean all --enablerepo='*'

	Shouldn't that be:
$ yum --enablerepo=\* clean all

Scott

> > > is junk and can safely be removed?
> > 
> > Yeah, heck, I even
> > rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
> > from time to time.  (-:
> 
> In fact in principle, anything under /var/cache/* is cache data that can
> be recreated if required by the "owning" program, so it should be safe
> to delete the contents of any of the cache directories when the program
> is not running.
> 
> Paul.
>