Description of problem: PackageKit stores a lot of package metadata even though all updates are installed: $ LANG=C du -hcs /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/*/packages 8.0K /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages 47M /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/google-chrome/packages 125M /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages 171M total # LANG=C pkcon update Getting updates [=========================] Finished [=========================] No packages require updating to newer versions. $ LANG=C du -hcs /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/*/packages 8.0K /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages 47M /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/google-chrome/packages 125M /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages 171M total Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-1.0.11-1.fc23 Additional info: PackageKit also keeps multiple versions of packages around$ LANG=C ls -la /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 54922 Mar 1 06:03 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 55318 Mar 3 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21386158 Feb 29 06:04 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-core-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21423082 Mar 3 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-core-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1038230 Mar 1 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-headers-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1038658 Mar 3 06:07 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-headers-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19112566 Mar 1 06:04 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-modules-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19122382 Mar 3 06:06 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-modules-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm And it also keeps downloading new updates without cleaning up until the filesystem is completely full. Not sure, if all of these require different bugs, it overall the cache management is bad. And IMHO from a distribution point of view all package managers should share the same package cache, instead of all managers keeping copies of updates for themselves (and not cleaning them up).
(In reply to Till Maas from comment #0) > > And it also keeps downloading new updates without cleaning up until the > filesystem is completely full. This is bug #1306992
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Duplicate of bug #1306992.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1306992 ***