YUM CRASHES WILL BLOW AWAY CACHE DOWNLOADS. GUARANTEED!

[Greg Kilfoyle]

It appeared to me that the default cache retention behavior changed with
FC5 (from FC4) and that you can turn retention back on by changing
the /etc/yum.conf file.

I ran into some dependency issues and sure enough, the next time I ran
yum all the previous downloads were gone. I changed it to retain cache
files and things worked as before.

I don't have my FC5 system in front of me so I can't provide the exact
config line that needs changing.

Cheers, Greg.


On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 23:13 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Dan Thurman wrote:
> > 
> > > This is a crash.  Cannot prove that all my downloaded files were wiped
> > > out though.
> > 
> > Surely it is fairly easy to see if the rpm files are there or not?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Timothy Murphy  
> > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> > 
> 
> Rahul asked me pretty-please to add the crash data to the
> following bug reported.  Here it is for your information.
> 
> Bugzilla Bug 186041 – yum cleans up downloaded packages after running
> out of mirrors [ I added: or when it crashes ]
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
-- 
Greg Kilfoyle <greg at kilfoyle.com>