yum ignoring cached packaged?

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Mon Jun 26 16:14:15 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:55 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
>> 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?
> Are you sure it retains the packages? If it does have it in cache,
> redownloading would of course be a bug but the default behavior doesnt
> retain it anymore. 
> 
> Rahul
> 
So, the correct answer to the OP would have included something like 
"default behavior has changed, look at /etc/yum.conf and set 
keepcache=1" to retain packages in cache.

Richard




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