yum doesn't remove old package files

[Tim]

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...

-- 
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.