/var/cache/yum grows rapidy, sqlite files of a repository found be larger than 3GB

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Issue

  • "/var/cache/yum" grows rapidly. Following articles 40279 and 974373 does not solve this.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x

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