-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-01-18 at 14:13 +0100, 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What I have not yet found, is the Suse alternative for "aptitude autoclean" delete only out-of-date package files but keep current ones.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?
It's a relatively new feature, but I think you can simply delete the rpms manually. I haven't tried, so I don't know. At worst, you'd have to run "zypper clean --all" later. Automatic cleaning... there is a configuration file that mighjt have some options for this, would be worth checking. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAklzTakACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U3HACfQcIP3OjiXnWQRRYf3Xg7AhdO CBoAljpsLv6yDU2SyNe5QwNhMju5kh0= =mnXT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org