YUM CRASHES WILL BLOW AWAY CACHE DOWNLOADS. GUARANTEED!

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Apr 3 23:26:19 UTC 2006


Dan Thurman wrote:

> If yum for any reason crashes - as it did MANY times via the Software
> Add/Remove, yumex, or even at a yum command line in a terminal session
> window - for some reason or another, ALL cache downloaded files
> in /etc/cache/yum/packages are BLOWN AWAY.  This is the 8th time YUM has
> PISSED ME OFF!

WORKSFORME.  When/if yum crashes (or I stop it), the next invocation
simply picks up where it left off (as it should).

-- Rex




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