Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. In this example, enable a repo called ksplice-uptrack -enablerepo='ksplice-uptrack' : Enable specific repositories by id or glob.-disablerepo='*' : Disables specific repositories by id or glob.Uptrack-python-cjson-debuginfo.x86_64 1.0.5-5.el6 ksplice-uptrack Uptrack-libyaml-debuginfo.x86_64 0.1.3-1.el6 ksplice-uptrack Uptrack-PyYAML-debuginfo.x86_64 3.08-4.el6 ksplice-uptrack Python-ksplice-uptrack.noarch 0.2.2-1.el6 ksplice-uptrack Ksplice-uptrack-release.noarch 1-2 ksplice-uptrack Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager

# yum -disablerepo='*' -enablerepo='ksplice-uptrack' list available To list available packages under a repo called ksplice-uptrack, enter: For this purpose, a repo is considered clean when its disk usage doesn't exceed 64KB (that is to account for directory entries and tiny metadata files such as 'productid' that are never cleaned).Fig.01: Yum Query All Repositories and Show Repository ID’s Command As a convenience, if this command does not result in a completely empty cache due to the restrictions outlined at the beginning of this section, a message will be printed, saying how much disk space can be reclaimed by cleaning the remaining repos manually. Tell any enabled plugins to eliminate their cached data.ĭoes all of the above. Using this option will force yum to download the sqlite metadata the next time it is run, or recreate the sqlite metadata if using an older repo.Įliminate any cached data from the local rpmdb. Using this option will force yum to download all the metadata the next time it is run.Įliminate the sqlite cache used for faster access to metadata. Note that packages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.Įliminate all of the header files, which old versions of yum used for dependency resolution.Įliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote availability of packages. However if the cache is still valid, nothing significant was deleted.Įliminate any cached packages from the system. This means yum will revalidate the cache for each repo. Taken from 'man yum' ?clean CLEAN OPTIONSĮliminate the local data saying when the metadata and mirrorlists were downloaded for each repo.

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