I have come to understand that for yum, commands like clean only applies to the actual buildroot. So without a -r argument, the cleaning is done on the default root, whatever this might be(?).
Actually, there is probably nothing wrong with this - it works fine when using the -r option. Problems comes without it, when one thinks it applies to all buildroots. It would perhaps make sense outputting something like "Using buildroot foo" when there is no -r on the command line(?). On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote: > > Am 12.01.2014 22:42, schrieb Miroslav Suchy: > > On 01/12/2014 08:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> "dnf clean all" without "dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing clean all" > does > >> exactly *nothing* in case of "updates-testing", the same for YUM simply > >> because folders of non-enabled repos are not relevant for any operation > > > > And is this correct behavior? (and yum behaves same way, so same > question apply to yum as well). > > no, i only explained the current state of play > > looking at the word "all" and it's meaing clearly *no* > looking at the thread and result of the behavior clearely *no* > looking at that people use "updates-testing" with --enablerepo *no* > looking at the fact that i do not trust the word "all" clearly *no* > > > Man page for yum state: > > > > yum clean metadata > > Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote > availability of packages. Using this option > > will force yum to > > download all the metadata the next time it is run. > > > > There is no statement that it apply only for *currently enabled* > repository. > > I would expect that it clean *all* metadata. > > > > I was recently very surprised that when I done : > > > > # rpm -q yum > > yum-3.4.3-128.fc20.noarch > > # yum clean all > > ... > > # du -sh /var/cache/yum/x86_64/* > > 225M /var/cache/yum/x86_64/19 > > 111M /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20 > > 406M /var/cache/yum/x86_64/rawhide > > > > that there is a lot of data in /var. To be precise - after this > operation I would expect that > > /var/cache/yum/x86_64/ would have zero size. And not 730 MB. > > and that is why i switched 7 years ago to "rm -rf /var/cache/yum*" > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
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