https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919#c1 --- Comment #1 from Tony Mechelynck 2014-07-25 07:27:30 CEST --- Oops! Typo: 8. …at step 7. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919#c Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|YaST2 |libzypp AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |zypp-maintainers@forge.prov | |o.novell.com QAContact|jsrain@suse.com |qa-bugs@suse.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919#c4 --- Comment #4 from Tony Mechelynck 2014-08-01 01:03:00 CEST --- (In reply to comment #3)

fixed in libzypp-13.8.4 Cleaning packages dir on repo remove and orphaned solv dirs on refresh.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 853065 ***

Hm, I'm skeptical. My current libzypp version is 13.10.2 and yet I won 16 GiB (which isn't nothing) by manually removing orphaned caches. (package dirs IIUC: orphaned subfolders of /var/cache/zyp/packages/). I cannot exclude the hypothesis that they had been left there by some version of YaST or zypper anterior to the fix; but then, shouldn't these two programs have realised that caches existed which did not correspond to any known repository, enabled or not? Hm, bug 853065 comment #1 says

…Obviously we do not remove the packages cached below /var/cache/zypp/packages,… The reason is not "obvious" to me, and these (with one subdirectory of …/packages per repo) were exactly those I removed manually, for a total of 16 GiB.

Is that "obviousness" still there, and can someone explain it to me? (use direct email if you think that "spamming the bug" would be off-topic). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919#c6 Michael Andres changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|DUPLICATE | --- Comment #6 from Michael Andres 2014-08-01 10:51:50 CEST ---

Hm, I'm skeptical.

You are right, excuse my inattentiveness. #853065 does not remove 'orphaned' package caches, just the repos cache upon deletion. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888919#c8 --- Comment #8 from Tony Mechelynck 2014-08-02 20:14:20 CEST --- (In reply to comment #7)

fixed with linzypp-13.10.4

Thanks a lot, Michael. :-) I suppose that this fix will be included in openSUSE 13.2. Do you think it is possible to port it back to one of the upcoming Online Updates for 13.1? Here are my reasons: - This fix may seem to be only an "enhancement" to a developer, but to a user whose HD is almost full, freeing tens of GiB at one stroke can make the difference between life and death; - I have found that for me (who live in Brussels), the most practical way to get the openSUSE DVD is at the SUSE stand at FOSDEM (software shops here don't sell Linux anymore because "you can't make a decent profit margin on something which can be downloaded for free"); however, FOSDEM happens once a year but there is a new release every 8 months, so I "miss" one release in every three; when I'll get the 3.2 release it'll already be 3 months old. In the meantime I apply, as I see them, the Online Updates for the release I have. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.