Security Updates -- Are they necessary in Linux for user?
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 21:17:45 UTC 2007
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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> Scott van Looy:
>>>> Default is not to cache files. Change:
>>>> keepcache=0
>>>> in /etc/yum.conf
>>
>>
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson:
>>> This controls keeping of installed files. but doesn't YUM keep the
>>> files it was not able to install even with keepcache=0?
>> The parameter is called keepcache not keepinstalled, and that seems to
>> be how it behaves, despite what it says about it the yum.conf man page:
>>
>> keepcache
>> Either ¡1¢ or ¡0¢. Determines whether or not yum keeps the cache
>> of headers and packages after succesful installation. Default
>> is ¢1¢ (keep files)
>>
>> I've observed it to dump files its cached for the next run, so they need
>> re-downloading, even if they weren't installed.
>>
>> NB: Although the default for YUM may be "1" (keep files), the default
>> preset in the yum.conf file is "0" (don't keep files).
>>
>>
> I have had just the opposite experience - the files are still in
> /var/cache/yum/{repo}/packages. At times, I have used rpm to install
> most of the packages.
>
> I wish YUM would install the packages that do not have conflicts,
> instead of aborting on the first error...
Use the plugin yum-skip-broken from the yum-utils package and yum will
download and install the packages that do not have dependency problems.
- --
David
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