NM key hassle
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Thu Mar 12 22:24:54 UTC 2009
Tim wrote:
> Seconded. When things are working fine, yum takes care of itself.
>
> You *might* want to clear out downloaded packages, if drive space is
> important to you.
<snip>
> If you
> never want to keep them, you can set yum to not cache downloaded
> packages.
Which is the default on current Fedora releases.
> Though I like to keep them, so I can revert to an
> older package, should I have to recover from a fault, without having to
> trawl the internet looking for a mirror that still has them.
Likewise, although old packages should be available through
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ , which cuts down on searching.
James.
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