Feature changed by: Donovan Cameron (saultdon) Feature #313375, revision 2 Title: Have zypper clean cached packages intelligently - openFATE: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Donovan Cameron (saultdon) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When you tell zypper to clean the cached packages with the command: zypper clean This removes ALL cached packages. Over time, zypper will keep all versions of a package RPM file. This can result in a bloated - /var/cache/zypp folder. It would be nice to be able to remove all OLD - cached packages and keep the latest one, or even have more - functionality like being able to specify how many previous versions (to - control rollback ability when using the --force flag). Or if it finds - that a package is the only one, just keep it. - Pseudo code example: If package is installed then If package names are - the same keep the newest version Else if package has no matches do not - delete Else package is no longer installed delete cached package + /var/cache/zypp folder. + It would be nice to be able to remove all OLD cached packages and keep + the latest one, or even have more functionality like being able to + specify how many previous versions (to control rollback ability when + using the --force flag). + Or if it finds that a package is the only one, just keep it. + Pseudo code example: If package is installed then ..If package names + are the same ....keep the newest version ..Else if package has no + matches ....do not delete Else package is no longer installed ..delete + cached package -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313375

Feature changed by: Donovan Cameron (saultdon) Feature #313375, revision 4 Title: Have zypper clean cached packages intelligently openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Donovan Cameron (saultdon) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When you tell zypper to clean the cached packages with the command: zypper clean This removes ALL cached packages. Over time, zypper will keep all versions of a package RPM file. This can result in a bloated /var/cache/zypp folder. It would be nice to be able to remove all OLD cached packages and keep the latest one, or even have more functionality like being able to specify how many previous versions (to control rollback ability when using the --force flag). Or if it finds that a package is the only one, just keep it. Pseudo code example: If package is installed then ..If package names are the same ....keep the newest version ..Else if package has no matches ....do not delete Else package is no longer installed ..delete cached package Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2012-05-10 06:50:27) So just add keeppackages=0 to /etc/zypp/repos.d/<whatever>.repo + #2: Donovan Cameron (saultdon) (2012-05-31 22:21:57) (reply to #1) + I want to cache packages though. This makes it so I can share this + folder location over the network for other users to install from or + contribute too. This is a much-needed-feature as it actually costs me + money not to have it and takes up precious disk space! My ISP has usage- + based-billing so cutting down on bandwidth usage is important. What I + also do not want zypper to do is keep the old RPM in there when a new + one is installed. + In some cache folders, I have almost 20-50 files for a single program, + all different versions. I only want the latest one or options to keep + rollback versions to something I specify, like the last 2 revisions... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313375