On my rhel6 system, non-sudo users can do yum check-update. Files are then placed in /var/tmp/yum[user]*/
. The repodata there gets quite large. Can I:
- Configure the location?
- Configure yum so it removes old files?
My /var/tmp/yum-nrpe*/x86_64/6Server looks contains the following:
28M el-6-epel/5f32b55aa431745fe8b48deb2e0083a6507d19abbc29562a2e2b01b70ef93ada-primary.sqlite 29M el-6-epel/89f1177c1b9f003409e2f5a91f7f3074a4b8e162376ffab286a35b8221e0a308-primary.sqlite 29M el-6-epel/b98f6809469e5de3a13a5b251c5d35c622baecb9f3c593804245c443ace9a224-primary.sqlite 29M el-6-epel/c79dd64a4e4aa8fb160353e9cd9d8e10120f5402a18aca730ae860d07f52bda3-primary.sqlite 29M el-6-epel/e4b306d444fcfb361f7f2aace64a3ef67c8bd7fd1cbd251e64f150096f2f1ba9-primary.sqlite 1.2M el-6-comp-extra/6c04e2f2f68bc085d529d857dd6c0539ff23d5139d2be21565dac3d8e586bae0-primary.sqlite 15M rhel-6-server-optional-rpms/2469dd815fb83f3667f043cf3098a487a13ac6955ea36b2349bdc3a2ee1e20d2-primary.sqlite 15M rhel-6-server-optional-rpms/bf8ce73943e4c78fc4205924fbfaf20ec4bcb72757f03366ec1245ffe2e0803e-primary.sqlite 15M rhel-6-server-optional-rpms/e4f6cad281229297c712f8dd828c2062f8fbc02c6be215ea0df35059e98b4a5d-primary.sqlite 124M rhel-6-server-rpms/5a411e3bf6a743656636e6baaec1680eec3480cf69acb79aad11c535862f2787-primary.sqlite 124M rhel-6-server-rpms/60daa8229ca2386d6c7f319ce1fd819a46109e0b7a42c90e48acde23c3b200f6-primary.sqlite 124M rhel-6-server-rpms/8592d0cd0b2e358c7850dee130497cb8969a72b9ac28cddc13a054caccee6d65-primary.sqlite 124M rhel-6-server-rpms/f5798fe075da31815c5e43356a10c208af55a972b61fea37d63ea6edb3a78cae-primary.sqlite
Best Answer
When you run
yum
under not privileged user it uses as a cache directory the directory/var/tmp
or what is set by the shell variableTMPDIR
. So you can change the default behavior by runningyum
like this:The same way you can run
yum
to clean up the cache directory:When you use
clean all
option, ignore the warnings about rpmdb files as the user doesn't have priviledges to do so.Finally, you can export the
TMPDIR
variable to not use it repeatedly when runningyum
: