[Yum] Cleaning up repositories
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Feb 28 17:33:23 UTC 2003
> The problem:
> If you have a repository, and you remove all the rpm's out of it, then do a
> yum-arch on the repository, it doesn't do anything, so you are left with the
> old header.info and header files.
> If a person then yum's against that repository, they get the info that those
> rpm's are still there, but of course when yum tries to download the rpm's it
> fails.
>
> The solution:
> when yum-arch get's run, and it finds that there isn't any rpm's where it is
> told, have it check to see if there is a header directory with headers in it.
> If there is, then clean it up, preferably leaving an empty header.info file
> there.
yes, this is trivial.
I'll mark it down for something in yum-arch
thanks
-sv
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