Hi Douglas,
Why do we need clean yum cache before installing packages during host
installation? It could cause a ssh timeout somtimes. On my test VM, it
needs several minutes do download yum metatada. Please see the test below:
[root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink
| 8.6 kB 00:00
fedora
| 4.2 kB 00:00
fedora/primary_db
| 14 MB 00:11
fedora/group_gz
| 434 kB 00:00
ovirt-nightly
| 1.3 kB 00:00
ovirt-nightly/primary
| 31 kB 00:00
ovirt-stable
| 1.3 kB 00:00
ovirt-stable/primary
| 15 kB 00:00
updates/metalink
| 4.6 kB 00:00
updates
| 4.7 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db
| 5.9 MB 03:28
updates/group_gz
| 434 kB 00:21
ovirt-nightly
183/183
ovirt-stable
69/69
No Packages marked for Update
real 4m33.527s
user 0m5.741s
sys 0m0.772s
[root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Packages marked for Update
real 0m1.184s
user 0m1.048s
sys 0m0.115s
Thanks!
Mark