[ale] [Rant] Fedora Package Caching

[Jim Kinney]

Dang! You are quite correct.

systemctl disable packagekit; systemctl stop packagekit; rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit

Or in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf uncomment #KeepCache=false and restart it.

On October 3, 2017 9:43:43 PM EDT, "Ted W." <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:
>dnf clean all was one of the first things I tried. It didn't clean 
>anything from PackageKit :(
>
>On 10/03/2017 09:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> dnf clean all
>> 
>> Much faster :-)
>> 
>> PackageKit is the tool that automatically downloads rpms for upgrade
>and 
>> notifies you that updates are available in the gnome ui.
>> 
>> Best way to not have it happen (especially with manual cli upgrades)
>is 
>> to disable PakageKit from startup in systemd.
>> 
>> On October 3, 2017 9:04:34 PM EDT, "Ted W." <ted-lists at xy0.org>
>wrote:
>> 
>>     Today my laptop warned me that disk space on / was running low.
>After
>>     investigation I found out the source was /var/cache/PackageKit.
>It was
>>     taking up over **24GB** of space of my 50GB root partition.
>50GB!!!
>> 
>>     My first question was, what the heck is PackageKit and why is it
>eating
>>     half of my root partition (10% of my ENTIRE DISK)!? Thinking it
>was
>>     something to do with the standard package caching, I looked to
>`dnf` and
>>     `pkcon` for help. Found a solution to purge some cached files.
>This
>>     helped but didn't really make a noticeable dent. Looks like most
>of the
>>     files were in /var/cache/PackageKit/25.... 25... I'm on Fedora
>26! Why
>>     the heck is 10% of my disk being used by packages cached from a
>version
>>     of Fedora I'm not even running!
>> 
>>     Turns out Gnome3 is trying to be "helpful" and in their all
>knowing
>>     ways, the developers have thought it would be "correct" if they
>enabled
>>     download caching for ALL packages you update BY DEFAULT. Even if
>you've
>>     _never_used_the_graphical_package_manager!
>> 
>>     W  T  F
>> 
>>     Thankfully, there was an easy fix to all of this:
>> 
>>     Remove the files:
>>     `# find /var/cache/PackageKit -type f -name \*.rpm -exec rm {} +`
>> 
>>     Turn off auto downloading:
>>     `# gsettings setorg.gnome.software <http://org.gnome.software> 
>download-updates false`
>> 
>>     I've gotten mostly used to Gnome3 since it was made the default
>in
>>     Fedora many years ago but sometimes I still find things like this
>that
>>     really grind my gears. Defaults that try to be "helpful" and have
>>     absolutely no sanity checking to ensure they're not doing
>something
>>     completely and utterly brain dead!
>> 
>>     Original bug
>report:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80053
>>     StackExchange
>post:https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265755/fedora-23-can-i-safely-delete-files-in-var-cache-packagekit-metadata-updates
>> 
>>     </rant>
>> 
>>     - Ted
>> 
>> 
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