I was attempting to update my FC4 box last night and ran into problems because there was no space for installing the 860M of updates (yeah, yeah, I know...I haven't been keeping up-to-date). Thinking there should have been plenty of space, I started poking around and found >3G of stuff in /var/cache/yum. Since the just-downloaded updates accounted for only 806M of that, I'm guessing the rest was from previous updates.
Is this normal? Does yum keep copies of previously-installed packages in there? If so, is there a less-than-obvious setting that will instruct yum to clean up after itself? I saw an option like "-obsoletes" that would remove obsolete packages -- and this allowed the update to run successfully, but it did not clean the cache. Is it save to just delete everything under /var/cache/yum after a successful update? TIA, C -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Chris Merrill | Web Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://webperformance.com 919-433-1762 | 919-845-7601 Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software & Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
