yum cleanup

[Todd Denniston]

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.

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter