What does `package-cleanup --orphans' really tell me?
Dean S. Messing
deanm at sharplabs.com
Mon Dec 17 22:02:11 UTC 2007
Craig White (toward the end of the Cups Problem thread) wrote:
: sudo rpm -e x264-0.0.0-0.3.20061023.fc6.i386
: sudo yum -y install yum-utils
: # and then finally...let us know the output of
: sudo package-cleanup --orphans
:
: This will list problematic packages
Out of curiosity, I just ran
`package-cleanup --orphans'
on my fairly well-maintained F7 system and got:
[root at medulla0 ~]# package-cleanup --orphans
Setting up yum
kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.x86_64
fetchmail-init-1.1-0.noarch
autofs-5.0.1-27.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.x86_64
pam-0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7.x86_64
pam-0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7.i386
mysql-libs-5.0.45-1.fc7.i386
pam-devel-0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7.i386
metamail-2.7-29.7.x.legacy.x86_64
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7.x86_64
pam-devel-0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7.x86_64
mysql-libs-5.0.45-1.fc7.x86_64
VMwareWorkstation-6.0.2-59824.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7.x86_64
kernel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-1.2.6.23.1_10.fc7.x86_64
iptables-ipv6-1.3.8-2.1.fc7.x86_64
grub-0.97-13.i386
iptables-1.3.8-2.1.fc7.x86_64
kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.x86_64
AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486
(Yes, I keep more than two kernels around.)
Which of these is problematic? I'd be interested to know what
`package-cleanup --orphans' is checking for?
The man page gives this description:
DESCRIPTION
package-cleanup is a program for cleaning up the locally-
installed RPMs.
Later in the man page it says something about these packages not
coming from any yum repo. In the list above, that is only true for a
subset of packages (e.g. AdobeReader_enu and VMwareWorkstation).
Dean
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