yum ignoring cached packaged?

[Richard Hally]

Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:15:02AM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
>> I'm updating a rawhide system that hasn't seen an update
>> in about a month. The yum update managed to download 750 meg
>> of rpms but didn't have enough disk space to install them.
>>
>> I ran update on gnome, then kde. Yum used the cached
>> files. I decided to update yum itself. On the next update
>> yum rebuilt the sqlite cache. Subsequent yum updates are
>> now downloading the rpm's again, ignoring about 500 meg
>> of files sitting in /var/cache/yum.
>>
>> Is this a bug or expected behaviour?
> 
> New expected behaviour. To get the old default behaviour,
> you can set "metadata_expire=0" in the main or per-repo
> section.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Florian La Roche
> 
Huh? Re-download RPMs it already has in it's cache, why would it be 
designed to do that?

Richard