yum updates does not keep packages

[Mark Panen]

Hi

Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
on Fedora 7.

Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on disk.

Mark

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Mark Panen wrote:
> Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
> updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
> on Fedora 7.
>
> Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on disk.

Man yum.conf .  Look for 'keepcache'. The manual page says that 
preserving the cache is default, but in the fedora provided yum.conf the 
setting is effectively set to delete after successful installation.

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:41, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
> updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
> on Fedora 7.
>
> Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on
> disk.
>
> Mark

Hi Mark. As root in a text editor go to /etc/yum.conf , and change the 
keepcache line so that it reads:
keepcache=1

Nigel.

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:42 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Mark Panen wrote:
> > Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
> > updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
> > on Fedora 7.
> >
> > Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on disk.
>
> Man yum.conf .  Look for 'keepcache'. The manual page says that 
> preserving the cache is default, but in the fedora provided yum.conf the 
> setting is effectively set to delete after successful installation.

Huh, glad you mentioned it as I read that bit about preserving the cache
as default and didn't both to check it. Thanx, Ric