From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 Description of problem: In up2date's spool directory, old package lists and RPM header files pile up. The user must clean the directory manually or configure tmpwatch to get rid of old files periodically. Although my up2date is configured with "keepAfterInstall=1" to keep the downloaded rpms, old package lists and rpm header files in the spool directory should expire automatically after a grace period of, let's say, 7-14 days. Considering that up2date is supposed to increase automation, the user should not have to remove unused and out-of-date files in the spool directory manually. The user's disk space might be huge enough to keep all downloaded packages. But that is no reason to keep also all old *.hdr files and lots of old package list files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.7.86-7.x.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Configure up2date with "keepAfterInstall=1", let it fetch and apply a series of packages over some arbitrary period of time, and observe that not only the downloaded rpms but also old and unused package lists and *.hdr files are kept and never get deleted automatically. Additional info: [Filed against Valhalla because I assume blindly that it applies to Limbo, too.]
this should be fixed in current versions (2.9.30~ at least...)
Confirmed with Psyche and Phoebe and package/obsoletes lists. Old package header (.hdr) files don't get deleted automatically, though, but they are small and few and hence a lesser problem.