<html><head></head><body>dnf clean all<br>
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Much faster :-)<br>
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PackageKit is the tool that automatically downloads rpms for upgrade and notifies you that updates are available in the gnome ui.<br>
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Best way to not have it happen (especially with manual cli upgrades) is to disable PakageKit from startup in systemd.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 3, 2017 9:04:34 PM EDT, "Ted W." <ted-lists@xy0.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Today my laptop warned me that disk space on / was running low. After<br />investigation I found out the source was /var/cache/PackageKit. It was<br />taking up over **24GB** of space of my 50GB root partition. 50GB!!!<br /><br />My first question was, what the heck is PackageKit and why is it eating<br />half of my root partition (10% of my ENTIRE DISK)!? Thinking it was<br />something to do with the standard package caching, I looked to `dnf` and<br />`pkcon` for help. Found a solution to purge some cached files. This<br />helped but didn't really make a noticeable dent. Looks like most of the<br />files were in /var/cache/PackageKit/25.... 25... I'm on Fedora 26! Why<br />the heck is 10% of my disk being used by packages cached from a version<br />of Fedora I'm not even running!<br /><br />Turns out Gnome3 is trying to be "helpful" and in their all knowing<br />ways, the developers have thought it would be "correct" if they enabled<br />download caching for ALL packages you update BY DEFAULT. Even if you've<br />_never_used_the_graphical_package_manager!<br /><br />W T F<br /><br />Thankfully, there was an easy fix to all of this:<br /><br />Remove the files:<br />`# find /var/cache/PackageKit -type f -name \*.rpm -exec rm {} +`<br /><br />Turn off auto downloading:<br />`# gsettings set <a href="http://org.gnome.software">org.gnome.software</a> download-updates false`<br /><br />I've gotten mostly used to Gnome3 since it was made the default in<br />Fedora many years ago but sometimes I still find things like this that<br />really grind my gears. Defaults that try to be "helpful" and have<br />absolutely no sanity checking to ensure they're not doing something<br />completely and utterly brain dead!<br /><br />Original bug report: <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80053">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80053</a><br />StackExchange post: <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265755/fedora-23-can-i-safely-delete-files-in-var-cache-packagekit-metadata-updates">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265755/fedora-23-can-i-safely-delete-files-in-var-cache-packagekit-metadata-updates</a><br /><br /></rant><br /><br />- Ted<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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