Michael, I added a "-d" to yumreposync_flags in /etc/cobbler/settings
yumreposync_flags: "-l -d" and that did the trick!! Thanks for the clue, you might also consider using "-m" as an additional default flag to automatically get the group info. Gunter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:55 AM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: Remove older rpm revisions? ? Gunter Woytowitz wrote: > > I would like to easily remove older versions of rpms from the cobbler > directories. > > I'm always updating my local rpms from the internet sources, and over > time several versions of the same rpm > > are stored wasting a lot of disk space. > > As a specific example, the following directory on my system > > /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/fc8-i386-updates > > has the following duplicate rpms > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 250393214 2008-08-30 03:10 > alienarena-data-20080603-2.fc8.noarch.rpm > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 279361784 2008-10-22 20:52 > alienarena-data-20081016-1.fc8.noarch.rpm > > I tried creating a bash script to find duplicate names, but because > every package uses a different naming and versioning format it is > difficult to do reliably. > > I assume cobbler knows what the latest revs are and could purge the > older revs no longer used? > yum reposync (which cobbler uses for http+ftp repos) has options for keeping X number of previous versions around, IIRC. We really should use those options. I'll check up on this. --Michael > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
