yum cleanup

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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