Re: [CentOS] yum clean all - adverse effects?

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thus Jussi Hirvi spake: | Are there any adverse effects to "yum clean all"? Does the system | lose its memory of what is installed/updated? | | Regards, Jussi H.

Hi Jussi,

from the manpage:

clean Is used to clean up various things which accumulate in the yum ~ cache directory over time. More complete details can be found ~ in the Clean Options section below.

In this section:

yum clean all Runs yum clean packages and yum clean headers, yum clean meta- ~ data and yum clean dbcache as above.

It's all about *caching*. No information about installed packages will be lost.

Really important information is stored in /var/lib/rpm/.

HTH,

Timo