[Yum] Request: yum clean oldpackages

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 17 11:26:40 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 06:24, Paul Dickson wrote:
> Would it be reasonable to request a "clean oldpackages" clean option.  I'd
> like yum to remove old rpms from the the package directory that have been
> superceeded by rpms with that package directory.
> 
> In other words, my repository for RH9 Updates has several RPMs that
> superceed each other, I'd like yum to delete the older versions of the
> RPMs, but only within that repository (the RH9 Updates), so I can write
> the contents of the package directory to CD-R for use in a new install.

that should be possible - file an rfe in bugzilla and I'll look over the
code.

-sv





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