What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 15 18:03:12 UTC 2008
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> AFAICT there is no best number. If someone would like to play with it and
>> tell us what is more sensible it is utterly trivial to set.
>>
>> I don't think 1day is a good number - it'll drive some folks insane.
>
> Why? We shouldn't be pushing out updates more than once per day. Right?
>
>> it doesn't hit the network on every operation. And the cache timeout is
>> documented in the man page.
>
> Yes, it doesn't hit the network on every operation but that's the perception.
> For operations, it does, it isn't always obvious why. Why does remove hit
> the network for example? I would like to see such things documented
> somewhere. It is certainly a FAQ. If we had a reference to point out to
> users, it would help a lot. Thanks.
Faq:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq#Q.17:WhydoesyumalwaysseemtoupdatethemetadataonEVERYrun
-sv
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