commit 01a6780fd310cbf0027e98fad97aca324f952196
Author: Michal Domonkos <mdomonko@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Mar 9 14:02:25 2017 +0100
Add hint about rm -rf for yum clean all. BZ 1357083
diff --git a/cli.py b/cli.py
index 862992b..5f7c4ae 100755
--- a/cli.py
+++ b/cli.py
@@ -1718,6 +1718,23 @@ class YumBaseCli(yum.YumBase, output.YumOutput):
if 'all' in userlist:
self.verbose_logger.log(yum.logginglevels.INFO_2,
_('Cleaning up everything'))
+
+ # Print a "maybe you want rm -rf" hint to compensate for the fact
+ # that yum clean all is often misunderstood. Don't do that,
+ # however, if cachedir is non-default as we would have to replace
+ # arbitrary yum vars with * and that could produce a harmful
+ # command, e.g. for /mydata/$myvar we would say rm -rf /mydata/*
+ cachedir = self.conf.cachedir
+ if cachedir.startswith(('/var/cache/yum', '/var/tmp/yum-')):
+ # Take just the first 3 path components
+ rmdir = '/'.join(cachedir.split('/')[:4])
+ self.verbose_logger.log(
+ yum.logginglevels.INFO_2,
+ _('Maybe you want: rm -rf %s, to also free up space taken '
+ 'by orphaned data from disabled or removed repos'
+ % rmdir),
+ )
+
pkgcode, pkgresults = self.cleanPackages()
hdrcode, hdrresults = self.cleanHeaders()
xmlcode, xmlresults = self.cleanMetadata()