prevent yum deleting downloaded updates

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sat Jan 5 17:35:40 UTC 2008


On Saturday 05 January 2008 17:37, yordy wrote:
> anybody know how to tell yum do not delete downloaded updates after apply
> this? In previous versions of Fedora I have to clear my cache manually
> because yum keep all downloaded updates, but in Fedora 8 yum delete all
> downloaded updates automatically.

Hi Yordy. Edit /etc/yum.conf as root, and change the line.
keepcache=0  to keepcache=1

While your at it, and if you want to keep more than the default 2 kernels, add 
a line to the file as below.
installonly_limit=0

That will disable yum from trashing kernels you may want to keep (the 0 is a 
zero by the way).

All the best.

Nigel.




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