Re: Cleaning older versions of patches out of cache

IMPORTANT NOTE!!

I wrote:

> So I got desperate and did:
> 	# cd /var/cache/fou4s/packages/mirror.aarnet.edu.au/i386/update/8.0
> 	# rm patches/*
> 	# fou4s -u
> 	# for r in */*.rpm ; do
> 	> egrep "^InstPath: $r\$" patches/* || rm $r
> 	> done
> 	#

The above will only work with that version of SuSE.

Directory structure is a bit different for later versions.
Patch description file format is also different.

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