-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFK8ULDfg746kcGBOwRAt0AAJ0WbFpaUsB7vCi5VMWU1NBvAFGI9gCggXfF drBWR9L6lkitDOB1csW/fW4= =fdTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----