Cleaning old packages from Yum Cache

[atwinix]

Hello All,

I have enabled the option to keep the yum cache when updating Fedora 12 and I was wondering if there was a way in which I could remove old versions of the same package from the cache?

I have Fedora installed on more than one machine and I make them share a common update location for their updates to avoid downloading the same packages twice (bandwidth quota expensive in Australia).

Any ideas on how I could accomplish that? yum clean doesn't seem to have any options to only remove old packages!!!

Example:
The yum update cache has:

wireshark-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc12.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm

I wish to only keep the most recent version that is wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm, but for all the packages.


With thanks,

atwinix

[stoat]

Hello atwinix,

There is a python script named Tidy RPM Cache. I used it once just now, and it does what you said you need. But I have never used it before, so I can't say anything about it other than it exists.

[scott32746]

# yum clean packages
Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that pack-
ages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.

# yum clean all

[stoat]

Originally Posted by scott32746

# yum clean packages
Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that pack-
ages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.

# yum clean all

Hello scott32746,

Those commands delete the entire cache. I think atwinix wants to maintain a local cache of the currently installed packages and delete only the no-longer-installed packages.

[atwinix]

Hello stoat,

I tried the tool you recommended - Tidy RPM Cache - and it does exactly what I wanted it to do. Thanks loads. That is a real nice addition to my maintenance scripts. Great help. Just freed over 500MB of old updates...

Thank you all for your time and help.

Greatly appreciated.