On Sunday 18 January 2009 23:43:52 Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
I was playing a bit with kdirstat, and I noticed a directory that takes up a lot of space: /var/cache/zypper/RPMS It seems to contain cached versions of rpms that I manually downloaded&installed, for example VMware server.
I come from Ubuntu, and I still use Debian on my server, so I'm used to a large package cache. But the Suse way to do things is different, and I found out that package caching only happens when you explicitly enable it in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo. Otherwise the packages are always downloaded.
What I have not yet found, is the Suse alternative for "aptitude autoclean" delete only out-of-date package files but keep current ones.
I also would like to delete some of the VMware RPMs, because I have played a bit with different versions, and they are quite large. How can I clean up that cache directory? Can I just rm the unwanted files without any negative repercussions, or what is the official Suse way to do that?
Kind regards, Amedee
From the command line, as root, zypper clean will remove all downloaded rpms. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================