How do I delete old yum repositories and configuration files under RHEL 5 or CentOS Linux server?
You can delete old yum repositories and its configuration files from /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory
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Method #1: Delete Repo Configuration Files Using the rm Command
Type the following commands
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# ls -l
Sample outputs:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Aug 11 2010 epel.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1054 Aug 11 2010 epel-testing.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 561 Dec 14 2010 rhel-debuginfo.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222 Dec 14 2010 rhel-source.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Jan 16 15:27 srpm.repo
To delete epel.repo, enter:
# rm epel.repo epel-testing.repo
### ***************************** ###
### make sure you delete GPG keys also ###
### ***************************** ###
# rm /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
# yum clean all
Method #2: Delete Repo .rpm Package
First, find out repo package name, enter:
# rpm -qa | grep epel
Sample outputs:
epel-release-5-4
# yum remove epel-release-5-4
# yum clean all
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If you remove an repo manually, you must at least run “yum clean all” first, because yum will clean it’s cache only for the configured repo’s. Clean manual removal will need a removal of the old repo Cache files in /var/cache/yum also.