yum - how to cleanup downloaded yum cache

[Justin Conover]

On 3/6/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 3/6/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > Justin Conover wrote:
> > > On 3/6/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > >> I've tried to find a way to clean up all the old headers and
> > downloaded
> > >> RPMs that accumulate in /var/cache/yum
> > >>
> > ...
> > >> What I want is to erase (the thousands of) superseded header files
> > that
> > >> are no longer current, leaving with only the current headers from
> > repo,
> > >> and also delete the superseded rpm files (probably another 1000-2000
> > >> files and 1.5 to 2 GB of data), ie if the rpm is not in the current
> > repo
> > >> file list, then delete it for each repo.
> > >
> > > I don't think you can have your cake and eat it to.
> > Why not, it's only programming - the repo info files contain all the
> > information that a tool would need. a. Create list of current rpms. b.
> > Create file list of the yum package directory. c. for each item in b
> > that is not in a, erase both hdr + rpm ?
> > >
> > > It takes like 10-30 seconds to get all the header files if you start
> > over, I
> > > don't think your going to find away to exclude/keep only certian
> > > header/rpm's unless you manually go through it.
> > Perhaps something as "simple" as using xargs in a script ?
> >
> > > Besides, if you only want to keep what is current on the server, what
> > would
> > > is it you want to accomplish with that?
> > I am trying to test on as many machines as possible, and bandwidth is
> > not free, nor is it fast (I am on a capped plan - once I get to my
> > monthly limit I get slowed to modem speed!) For example to get from
> > FC5T3 to rawhide, the downloads of headers might take 5 minutes (@
> > 512kb). But more importantly, why unnecessarily waste internet / mirrors
> > bandwidth ?
> >
> > > Packages are already installed, so
> > > you don't really need them lying around,
> > I set up my main machine with heaps of storage to store all the hdr/rpm
> > as normal. I then pupdate the main machine just before I do the
> > following. On each new machine I test on, I run an rsync to mirror the
> > yum folder to the new machine, quite simple really, but copying 4000
> > files (2G of files) that aren't relevant and have long been superseded
> > is such a waste of my time.
> >
> > > if it is because your running
> > > rawhide and might need to fall back, than keep the packages for a few
> > and
> > > blow everything out.
> > I can see a reason while on the devel repo to keep some old packages,
> > but I'm far more concerned that my machines end up with no disk space.
> > Especially bad on any older/low-disk machines that I have tried. Having
> > to decide on erasing thousands of individual files manually is not my
> > idea of fun.
> >
> > Anyhow, thanks for you ideas Justin,
> >
> > DaveT.
> >
> > --
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>
>
> Ok, I understand why you want to do what you want to do (or something like
> that )  ;-)
>
> you could do this
>
> find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;
> find /var/cache/yum/development/packages -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;
> find /var/cache/yum/extras-development/headers -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;
> find /var/cache/yum/extras-development/packages -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {}
> \;
>
>
> E.G.
>
> find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +3 | wc -l
> 35
>
> find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +3 | wc -l
> 0
>
>  find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +2 | wc -l
> 38
>
> Notices I used 2 the last time.
>
> This should work for what you are wanting to do and you could drop all
> those in a script too.
>
> Keep in mind that the "+3" in -mtime means anything 4 days and older, so
> adjust that to your liking.
>
>

Just for clarity, this one

find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +3 | wc -l
 0

was after this was ran

find /var/cache/yum/development/headers -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;
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