[TriLUG] yum cache

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:32:47 -0400
Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this normal?  Does yum keep copies of previously-installed
> packages in there?  If so, is there a less-than-obvious setting
> that will instruct yum to clean up after itself?


Yes, that is normal and you can (at least with the yum version in
FC5) clean it up with:

  yum clean cache

And "man yum" has a pretty good description.

Ed

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