Maybe you want: rm -rf /var/cache/yum

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I am a little surprised to see the following message when you issue 'yum clean all' with the most recent version of yum in RHEL 7.4.

Maybe you want: rm -rf /var/cache/yum, to also free up space taken by orphaned data from disabled or removed repos

Rather than implementing a code fix which cleans up /var/cache/yum completely (for disabled and orphaned repos), yum is suggesting to the root user to execute 'rm' with 'recursive' and 'force' options???

Bugzilla is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357083

Errata is here:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2295

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