Question: How to find out how large a yum channel repository is, to know how much data the channel will sync to a local yum repository?
To see the actual size of the repository use either the “yum repolist -v” or “yum repoinfo” command.
1. Example for checking the size of latest OL7 yum channel
# yum repoinfo ol7_latest Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo Repo-id : ol7_latest/x86_64 Repo-name : Oracle Linux 7Server Latest (x86_64) Repo-status : enabled Repo-updated : Fri Jan 25 22:56:45 2019 Repo-pkgs : 8,857 Repo-size : 10 G Repo-baseurl : http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/ Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 28 09:34:04 2019) Repo-excluded: 2,947 Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol7.repo
2. Example for checking the size of all enabled yum channels of a OL6 system that was registered to ULN:
# uln-channel --list ol6_x86_64_UEKR4 ol6_x86_64_latest
# yum repolist -v Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "ulninfo" plugin Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Loading "security" plugin Config time: 0.035 This system is receiving updates from ULN. Looking for repo options for [main] Looking for repo options for [ol6_x86_64_latest] Repo 'ol6_x86_64_latest' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'ol6_x86_64_latest' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Repo 'ol6_x86_64_latest' setting option 'timeout' = '120' Looking for repo options for [ol6_x86_64_UEKR4] Repo 'ol6_x86_64_UEKR4' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'ol6_x86_64_UEKR4' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Repo 'ol6_x86_64_UEKR4' setting option 'timeout' = '120' Yum Version: 3.2.29 Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.040 Repo-id : ol6_x86_64_UEKR4 Repo-name : Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 for Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64) Repo-updated : Fri Feb 1 05:03:04 2019 Repo-pkgs : 109 Repo-size : 1.2 G . #### Repo-baseurl : https://linux-update.oracle.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/ol6_x86_64_UEKR4 Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Sat Feb 2 11:20:25 2019) Repo-excluded: 33 Repo-id : ol6_x86_64_latest Repo-name : Oracle Linux 6 Latest (x86_64) Repo-updated : Thu Jan 31 22:38:28 2019 Repo-pkgs : 8,890 Repo-size : 15 G ### Repo-baseurl : https://linux-update.oracle.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/ol6_x86_64_latest Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Sat Feb 2 11:20:41 2019) Repo-excluded: 2,558 repolist: 8,999