On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:30 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and > afterwards I issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at > the moment I have a need to be concerned about disk space) does that > remove knowledge of the rpm having been installed?
No, the RPM database is separate. Generally speaking, doing "clean all" is unnecessary for the user, and needlessly increases the workload on the repo servers. Now, instead of a user doing a metadata check and carrying on with perfectly fine cached data, it's fetching it all again. Multiply that by lots of users doing the same thing, and it's a huge increase. It gets even worse if people start downloading lots of RPMs, stuff something up, then dump their cache and start over again. It was always bad advice, and became a bit of a cargo cult mentality. When you do a dnf/yum update/install your software automatically handles caching of metadata and downloaded packages. It updates the metadata *when* needed, and this means out with the old in with the new, it's not accumulating more and more. Also, by default, the RPM packages it downloads to do these updates and installs are only kept on your drive until the job is finished, then they're purged. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
