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

Sat Jul 29 15:54:14 UTC 2006
Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com>

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.

Regards,
Paul Berger