Re: How to delete old yumdb entries?

Mike Fleetwood <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <CAMU1PDjP+=nziHinf1TaeQyDr=RHyMWeHxqrnkk4M=w68Fo+4w@mail.gmail.com>
On 15 September 2011 09:49, Frank Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15/09/11 09:15, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
>> 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).

I tried yum clean all and it hasn't reduced the size of yumdb at all.

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[root@rockover ~]# du -s /var/lib/yum/yumdb
129596 /var/lib/yum/yumdb
[root@rockover ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning repos: adobe-linux-i386 fedora livna rpmfusion-free
rpmfusion-free-updates rpmfusion-nonfree
: rpmfusion-nonfree-updates updates
Cleaning up Everything
0 delta-package files removed, by presto
[root@rockover ~]# du -s /var/lib/yum/yumdb
129596 /var/lib/yum/yumdb
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