yum doesn't remove old package files
Tim
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Thu Nov 29 12:11:44 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:57 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> a proof of $Subject:
Which yum, and which release of Fedora?
> [nico at nico2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
> firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
> firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc8
[tim at suspishus abc891]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
firefox-2.0.0.9-1.fc7
> [root at nico2 ~]# du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.*
> 6,8M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6
> 20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8
> 43M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9
[tim at suspishus abc891]$ du -sh /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.*
20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5
20K /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8
45M /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9
The first two just have plugins directories inside them, and symlinks to
the flashplayer plugin inside the plugins directory. I'd imagine that
since I had installed a plugins, that firefox updates didn't remove
prior firefox directories.
> Why aren't these files removed?
Don't know. Without seeing a listing of what's in yours, we can't tell
why it's still there. You might have had a failure during an update,
there might be something in there that ought to be kept.
> I run yum clean all regularly.
That's to do with the yum download cache, not the installed files.
> Is there a way to purge entirely old packages?
Manual file deletions...
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