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Bug 1321319 - PackageKit/pkcon does not clean up package cache
Summary: PackageKit/pkcon does not clean up package cache
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1306992
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PackageKit
Version: 25
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-25 13:05 UTC by Till Maas
Modified: 2017-07-16 13:14 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-06-27 14:48:22 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Till Maas 2016-03-25 13:05:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
PackageKit stores a lot of package metadata even though all updates are installed:
$ LANG=C du -hcs /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/*/packages
8.0K	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages
47M	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/google-chrome/packages
125M	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages
171M	total
# LANG=C pkcon update
Getting updates               [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
No packages require updating to newer versions.
$ LANG=C du -hcs /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/*/packages
8.0K	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages
47M	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/google-chrome/packages
125M	/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages
171M	total


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
PackageKit-1.0.11-1.fc23

Additional info:
PackageKit also keeps multiple versions of packages around$ LANG=C ls -la /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    54922 Mar  1 06:03 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    55318 Mar  3 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21386158 Feb 29 06:04 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-core-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21423082 Mar  3 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-core-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1038230 Mar  1 06:05 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-headers-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1038658 Mar  3 06:07 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-headers-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19112566 Mar  1 06:04 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-modules-4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19122382 Mar  3 06:06 /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/kernel-modules-4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm

And it also keeps downloading new updates without cleaning up until the filesystem is completely full. Not sure, if all of these require different bugs, it overall the cache management is bad. And IMHO from a distribution point of view all package managers should share the same package cache, instead of all managers keeping copies of updates for themselves (and not cleaning them up).
Comment 1 Yann Droneaud 2016-08-20 09:48:16 UTC 
(In reply to Till Maas from comment #0)
> 
> And it also keeps downloading new updates without cleaning up until the
> filesystem is completely full.

This is bug #1306992
Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 16:14:07 UTC 
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Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 3 Christian Stadelmann 2016-11-24 16:27:00 UTC 
This issue is still present on Fedora 25. Please change the version number.
Comment 4 Christian Stadelmann 2017-05-28 13:39:32 UTC 
Duplicate of bug #1306992.
Comment 5 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2017-06-27 14:48:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1306992 ***
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