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

[William L. Maltby]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:32 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 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:
> > > > > <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

> > > 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?
> ><snip>

> > 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!

I think I'm good to go now. Did 

  # rpm -e --verbose firstboot
  # rpm -e --verbose rhn-applet
  warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-applet saved
    as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-applet.rpmsave
  # rpm -e --verbose up2date up2date-gnome
  warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid saved
    as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid.rpmsave
  warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date saved
    as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.rpmsave
  warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources saved
    as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.rpmsave
  #
  
I'll run a final dependency check, tar/bzip2 the dir and regain 42M.

<snip sig stuff>

Thanks!
-- 
Bill
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