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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060729/a22c7cc6/attachment-0005.sig>