yum ignoring cached packaged?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:14 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> >>>
> >> 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.

Yes. That reply has been given already. It was documented by me in the
FC5 release notes. 

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#id2943647

Rahul