yum cleanup
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Jul 29 18:39:12 UTC 2009
Todd Denniston wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote, On 07/25/2009 08:32 PM:
>> I have been running yum with keepcache=1 to save rpms I install. Being
>> busy I seem to have gotten several versions of some packages in
>> /var/cache/yum. Is there a command which will delete anything listed
>> in obsoletes without losing my copy of the most recent? I create a
>> local archive of recent rpms to be nice to my network.
>>
>> Using 'yum clean' does too much. :-(
>
> repomanage -c -k 2 --old path/to/cacheOfRPMs/ > removethese.txt
> #and then (after sanity checking removethese.txt)
> for i in `cat removethese.txt`;do rm $i;done
>
> might get you close.
> Note, AFAIK the repomanage command does NOT have to be ran against a YUM
> repo.
>
> Note 2, using -k 1 keeps 1 vs -k 2 keeping 2.
>
I can't thank you enough for that, I was looking in all the wrong places! Just
the solution I wanted, works perfectly.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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