[Yum] Delete old packages from local repository

[Konstantin Riabitsev]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:04, Theresa Chen wrote:
> Since it is difficult to keep track which version of the backport openssh
> that we have on our linux machines, we've decided to just upgrade
> everything to openssh3.7 regardless of the linux distro.  This way when we
> run our scripts that checks for ssh version, it won't be so confusing.  We
> can just go down the list and say, this workstation still has 3.5 and so
> on...

You may find it harder than you think. Openssh-3.7 requires newer
openssl, which is not available on older systems. Trying to upgrade
openssl will cause something else to break, which requires an earlier
version. Etc.

Hmm... This is pretty offtopic. :)

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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