Hi. We have several hundred servers that recently received the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 update. One of the differences we noticed is that the yum caches are consuming more space than they were before. The issue appears to be the existence of caches that did not exist prior to the update, and they exist in all four cache directories:
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30832046 Aug 5 05:26 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160432128 Aug 7 12:01 filelists.xml.gz.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87140371 Aug 5 05:26 other.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365091840 Aug 7 12:02 other.xml.gz.sqlite
Reviewing the Red Hat release documentation for 5.7 revealed nothing about this change, and neither did the official yum documentation for this release.
Cleaning out the caches will only remove them temporarily. After a check-in with the RHN satellite, they build back up. Has anyone else experience this behavior or do you know why these new cache files appeared with 5.7?
Hello
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Code:
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
createrepo
createrepo(8)createrepo(8)NAME
createrepo - Create repomd (xml-rpm-metadata) repository
SYNOPSIS
createrepo [options] <directory>
DESCRIPTION
createrepo is a program that creates a repomd (xml-based rpm metadata) repository from a set of rpms.
OPTIONS -u --baseurl <url>
Optional base url location for all files. (not used by any clients at this time)
-o --outputdir <url>
Optional output directory (useful for read only media).
-x --exclude <package>
File globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times.
-i --pkglist <filename>
specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to include in the repository from the set found in the directory. File
format is one package per line, no wildcards or globs.
-q --quiet
Run quietly.
-g --groupfile <groupfile>
A precreated xml filename to point to for group information.
See examples section below for further explanation.
-v --verbose
Run verbosely.
-c --cachedir <path>
Specify a directory to use as a cachedir. This allows createrepo to create a cache of checksums of packages in the repository. In
consecutive runs of createrepo over the same repository of files that do not have a complete change out of all packages this
decreases the processing time dramatically.
--update
If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated,
reuse the existing metadata rather than recalculating it. In the case of a large repository with only a few new or modified rpms
this can significantly reduce I/O and processing time.
-C --checkts
Don't generate repo metadata, if their timestamps are newer than its rpms. This option decreases the processing time drastically
again, if you happen to run it on an unmodified repo, but it is (currently) mutual exclusive with the --split option.
--split
Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a set of directories corresponding to different volumes in a
media set.
-p --pretty
Output xml files in pretty format.
-V --version
Output version.
-h --help
Show help menu.
-d --database
Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.
EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e.
/path/to/rpms/comps.xml).
createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms
FILES
repodata/filelists.xml.gz
repodata/other.xml.gz
repodata/primary.xml.gz
repodata/repomd.xml
SEE ALSO
yum (8) yum.conf (5)
AUTHORS
Seth Vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
BUGS
Any bugs which are found should be emailed to the mailing list: rpm-metadata@linux.duke.edu
Seth Vidal 2005 Jan 2 createrepo(8)
08-08-2011
