The package cache can grow to eat up a lot of disk space, and not removing unused packages can lead to upgrade issues down the line for fast moving distributions such as Fedora Rawhide. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Changes from [v1]: * call 'yum autoremove' when possible. [v1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-April/msg00970.html guests/tasks/base.yml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/guests/tasks/base.yml b/guests/tasks/base.yml index 53cbd65..616db0a 100644 --- a/guests/tasks/base.yml +++ b/guests/tasks/base.yml @@ -117,6 +117,34 @@ when: - package_format == 'pkg' +- name: Clean up packages after update + command: yum clean packages -y + args: + warn: no + when: + - package_format == 'rpm' + +- name: Clean up packages after update + command: yum autoremove -y + args: + warn: no + when: + - package_format == 'rpm' + - not ( os_name == 'CentOS' and + os_version == '6' ) + +- name: Clean up packages after update + apt: + autoclean: yes + autoremove: yes + when: + - package_format == 'deb' + +- name: Clean up packages after update + shell: pkg clean -y && pkg autoremove -y + when: + - package_format == 'pkg' + - name: Configure hostname hostname: name: '{{ inventory_hostname }}' -- 2.14.3