On 4.11.2009 11:00, Timo Schoeler wrote:
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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
Ok, thanks. Once, a while ago, my system got amnesiac after "yum clean all", and I thought the the dbs in /var/lib/rpm had been "cleaned". But I guess the problem was caused by something other than "yum clean".
- Jussi