PRUNEREPO(1)

💅 PRUNEREPO(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the prunerepo manual page, the little glow-up glockenspiel that keeps your rpm-md repo from becoming a hoarder house 🎀 she's a one-trick pony in the best way: old packages? gone. metadata? rebuilt. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

prunerepo [--days DAYS] [--cleancopr] [--nocreaterepo] [--log-level LOG_LEVEL] [--dry-run] [-h] [-v] path

(that synopsis is literally the whole personality ✨)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe ✨ RPM packages that have a newer version available in that same repository get yeeted from the filesystem, and then the rpm-md metadata gets recreated afterwards. icon behavior, honestly.

and it gets better 🫶 if there's a source rpm for a deleted rpm — and they both share the same directory path — then that source rpm gets deleted too. matching set, going down together, it's giving ride or die 💀

she also has support for specific repository structures (e.g. COPR) 👑 which makes it possible to additionally remove build logs and whole build directories associated with a package. full clean-out, main character energy.

and after all the obsoleted packages are deleted, she runs:

createrepo_c --database --update

to recreate the repository metadata. periodt. 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• path — local path to a yum repository. like, the actual folder. on your actual disk. 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --days DAYS — only remove packages (and build directories, when --cleancopr is in play) that are DAYS old or older. for packages it's by their build date; for directories it's the last modification time that counts. so she's checking two different clocks, iykyk ⏰
• --cleancopr — additionally remove whole copr build dirs and logs if the associated package gets deleted. the deep clean 🔥
• --alwayscreaterepo — Recreate repository even when there was no change in data. she's gonna rebuild anyway, just because 💁‍♀️
• --nocreaterepo — repository is not automatically recreated (not even after data deletion). and yes, it Suppresses --alwayscreaterepo — the two do not coexist, bestie, one of them wins 😤
• --log-level — set logging to desired level. tell her how chatty you want her 🗣️
• --dry-run — do not remove anything from the repository and print the actions instead. and heads up: Verbose mode will be set. she narrates the whole thing 🎬
• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic 🫶
• -v, --version — print program version and exit. just the numbers, no drama 🧚

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💜 EXAMPLES 💜

prunerepo /path/to/repo

removes all packages for which a newer version is available in the repository. the og move 💅

prunerepo /path/to/repo --cleancopr

the same thing but also removes copr-specific build directories if they no longer contain any srpm/rpm package. crumbs cleaned, floor swept 🧹✨

prunerepo /path/to/repo --days 7

does not delete a package built in last 7 days even if a newer version is available for it. the grace period, the mercy, the protective lil bubble 🫧

prunerepo /path/to/repo --days 7 --nocreaterepo

the same thing but omits call to createrepo_c at the end. she deletes, she does not rebuild. no follow-through, respectfully 😭

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Michal Novotny <clime@redhat.com> — the legend who made this whole thing happen, we stan 🌈

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fr fr do not come for me if you skip reading the options — --dry-run exists specifically so you can vibe check before anything gets deleted. use it, bestie 🙈

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okay that's the whole page!! this was prunerepo(1), manual page, dated 02/18/2025 — now go clean that repo up, you absolute icon 💖✨🎀🦋💅