<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I get all ALL kinds of advice on these forums! I've gotten this: <pre>> yum clean all > yum clean metadata > yum clean dbcache from several different sources. I am spread way too thin already to become an expert on yum, XORG, X11, SELinux, the kernel, device drivers, etc. and many other technologies I have NO knowledge of! I will use yum as an update mechanism and trust its creators as I do with XP Prof. </pre> --- On Thu, 9/11/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com> Subject: Re: yum update yum;yum update yum-utils; WORKS To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 4:11 AM <pre>On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:32:16 -0700 (PDT), landon kelsey wrote: > my yum update now show all done > > I was told one must do these occasionally : > > yum clean all > yum clean metadata > yum clean dbcache Who has said that? It's nonsense, because "all" implies "metadata dbcache packages headers". No need to run three different commands if you want to purge everything. These options are explained in the manual, btw. > yum update > > or get nothing when there IS something to get! "yum clean metadata" is enough to make Yum re-download the repository metadata (instead of reusing cached data for 30 minutes). When refetching metadata it is possible that you are assigned to a different mirror that is more up-to-date than your previous one. There is NO guarantee for that. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines </pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>