[CentOS] RHN Up2date Cruft: can I dump it?

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Sat Jul 29 16:32:01 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 10:54 -0500, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 10:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:27 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 14:30 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > > > Got part 1 - xx of back up working, so figured it's a good time to look
> > > > for stuff to jettison<snip>
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway, 42M in /var/spool/up2date. Headers and such. I use only yum
> > > > after my first month or so of CentOS. Can I dump that and similar non-
> > > > config stuff?
> > > ><snip>
> > 
> > > > Bill
> > > 
> > > You can do:
> > > 
> > > rpm -e up2date up2date-gnome 
> > > 
> > > then see what is left ...
> > 
> > Got this
> > 
> > 
> > > rpm -e --verbose up2date up2date-gnome
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > >   up2date >= 4.3.38 is needed by (installed) firstboot-1.3.39-4.centos4.noarch
> > >   up2date-gnome >= 4.1.5 is needed by (installed) rhn-applet-2.1.24-3.centos4.i386
> > 
> > Think I should upgrade and redo?
> 
> Adding firstboot and rhn-applet should do it or doing "yum remove
> up2date up2date-gnome" should do it.
> 
> On the couple systems I have I generally remove the up2date & rhn cruft.
> Firstboot is only used the first time the system boots after the inital
> install and rhn-applet is the update notification icon.

Sounds like a plan! I'll take out first boot and the other two. I'll
miss the flashing red icon though... but not too much!

> 
> Regards,
> Paul Berger
> <snip sig stuff>

Thanks Johnny and Paul!
-- 
Bill
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