Re: How to delete old yumdb entries?

Време: 09/15/2011 12:48 PM, Mike Fleetwood пише:
> 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.
>

"yum clean all" will only clean yum cache for the repositories. That has 
nothing to do with database of already installed packages.

Yum cache: /var/cache/yum....

 > YumDB:
 > Since yum 3.2.26 yum has started storing additional information about 
 > installed packages in a location outside of the rpmdatabase. None of 
 > the information stored there is critical to performing its function
 > but it enhances the user experience and makes it possible to know
 > more about the context in which a package was installed.

 > /var/lib/yum/yumdb/<letter>/$checksum-packagename-$ver-$rel.$arch>
 > /keyname

 > Each keyname is a file and the contents of that file are the values.

According to this and little investigation, you should check each

/var/lib/yum/yumdb/<letter>/$checksum-packagename-$ver-$rel.$arch>/releasever

file and see for what version it was installed. My guess is that string 
in releasever file will determine if file was from 12.0, 13.0, etc...

Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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