Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3450 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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 autoclean" delete only out-of-date package files but keep current ones.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.

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