-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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What I have not yet found, is the Suse alternative for "aptitude autoclean" delete only out-of-date package files but keep current ones.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.
Yes, you can.
Automatic cleaning... there is a configuration file that mighjt have some options for this, would be worth checking.
AFAIK, we don't have anything like automatic removal of cached packages that are out of date. Yet. - -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team - ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 - ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz - ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)--- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl11l4ACgkQgEhGpmN+6QHZZwCeNpffzq8v4sOvTVXQdjFe/tsn nyEAn2ujY0ALDcW+nRmsX321+lcc64jf =4k2I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org