Bug 479907

Summary:	FutureFeature: Ability to purge package cache rather than just clean.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	DaveG <daveg>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, katzj, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description DaveG 2009-01-13 23:19:04 UTC

Description of problem:

FutureFeature - yum
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keepcache=1 is useful when removing and installing packages but cache storage grows unconfined. `yum clean packages` is no more useful than `rm -f /var/cache/yum/*/packages/*`. All or nothing.

A "really useful" enhancement would be the ability to clean, but keep the newest 'n' packages, i.e. purge the package cache. e.g.
  yum [purge|clean] --keep=[n]

Ideal candidate for a weekly or monthly cron job.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Currently yum-3.2.20-5
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Additional info:

I have written a utility to perform this task but it's stand-alone and in Perl. Over the life of Fedora 8 it has freed over 2GB of space while keeping the latest versions available.
Let me know if you want a copy - it describes the issue/solution quite well.

Cheers,
--DaveG.

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-01-14 03:10:26 UTC

you can use repomanage for this:

repomanage -k n -o /var/cache/yum | xargs rm -f

repomanage is in yum-utils

Comment 2 seth vidal 2009-01-14 13:53:36 UTC

Since we have a way to do this and we have lots of ways of making local mirrors, I think I'm going to pass on implementing this inside yum itself.

thanks