Re: How to delete old yumdb entries?

On 15/09/11 09:15, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> On 14 September 2011 23:16, Ljubomir Ljubojevic<[email protected]>  wrote:
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>> Be aware that higher/newer versions of Fedora (and RHEL/CentOS/SL) have used
>> packages from older versions for newer versions. For example, in Fedora 15
>> repo there are>  several packages with .f12.
>>
>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic
>
> Yes, that's true for my installation of Fedora 14 too.  About 80% of
> my packages are new in Fedora 14, with 9% and 7% from Fedora 12 and 13
> respectively and a handful from older one too.  I still have nearly
> three times as many yumdb entries than the number of RPMs currently
> installed, which must be for old packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

if yo dont' want to go the full "yum clean all",
try "yumdb --help"
to see what options are available to you.
yum-utils must be installed for this (iirc).


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