On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:23 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: ---- that's a little beyond the question. yum clean cache would be sufficient but since he is on fedora core 1, it may or may not be implemented in his version of yum so the better concept would be to direct him to refer to his man page for yum... man yum Craig

On 12/6/05, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)iesabroad.org&gt; wrote: I'd recommend using 'yum clean packages' instead. If you choose to do a 'clean all' then the header files describing what's available at your configured repositories will need to be downloaded again (and will be automatically the next time you invoke the 'yum' command). Basically, you need to ask what your intent is. Do you simply want to save disk space? Then you want a 'yum clean packages'. Do you want to completely clean out all of yum's state information, in effect "starting fresh" again? Then you want 'yum clean all'. CLEAN OPTIONS The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in clean mode. yum clean packages Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that pack- ages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded. yum clean headers Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote availability of packages. Using this option will force yum to download all the headers the next time it is run. yum clean all Runs yum clean packages and yum clean headers as above. -- Chris "`The enemy we fight has no respect for human life or human rights. They don't deserve our sympathy,' he said. `But this isn't about who they are. This is about who we are. These are the values that distinguish us from our enemies.' - Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona