yum and local cache

Otto Haliburton ottohaliburton at comcast.net
Fri Sep 10 14:09:03 UTC 2004



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Spaleta
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 8:15 AM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: yum and local cache
> 
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:55:23 -0400, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:44 +0300, Alin Osan wrote:
> > > On Friday 10 September 2004 11:20, seth vidal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > the '====' progress bar is for downloads
> > >
> > > I didn't know the difference before, but I've got '=========', I even
> > > checked with tcpdump, so it's definitely download.
> >
> > the only download that happens every time is the repomd.xml file.
> >
> > that's a <1000byte file.
> 
> As a comparison...  i did a full update to rawhide last night...and i
> just reverted to an older
> s-c-printer package  and used yum to install the newer again.  I know
> the packages and headers for s-c-printer are cached via visual
> inspection of the cache directories.
> /var/cache/yum/development/packages/system-config-printer-0.6.112-
> 1.i386.rpm
> /var/cache/yum/development/headers/system-config-printer-0.6.112-
> 1.i386.hdr
> 
> yum did not redownload the s-c-printer header nor the s-c-printer
> package, so from where I'm sitting, things look like they are working
> correctly from the cache to me.
> 
> -jef"is thinking the rawhide yum should default to -d6 just to save
> time asking for people to run d5 or d6"spaleta
> 
> 
> --
FYI, I had a problem similar to the description here but I didn't
investigate further.  There is something wrong with the new yum, but I can't
be sure what it is.  I do know that it failed at a particular repository
that it work for before.






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