Matthew Miller wrote: > There is a thread on the users' list * dealing with the issue that > after an upgrade, there's no non-obscure way to clean cached metadata > (or packages, even) from previous releases. The thread discussses DNF > and Yum, but it may apply to PackageKit/Software as well; I'm not sure > offhand. > > It seems like we should handle this in some way on upgrade. My first > thought was to make it an RFE dnf-plugin-system-upgrade. But, is that > the right place? Maybe some time-base system should prune metadata > associated with repositories for any earlier $releasever? (Or, > actually, maybe for any repository which does not match a current > configuration?) Or maybe a "dumb" process to sweep the cache based on > age alone would do?
yum includes arch/release subdirs under /var/cache/yum, the important part is the "release" part. So, it is theoretically easy to identify which parts are worth keeping and which ones are not (ie, does the release/ subdir match the current release or not). ie, $ ls -F /var/cache/yum/x86_64/ 24/ PackageKit seems to follow that practice at least partially: $ ls -F /var/cache/PackageKit/ 24/ downloads/ metadata/ dnf seems to not do that, but I'd suggest adding that could help. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
