yum rudeness

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 13 16:30:49 UTC 2006


seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:37 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
>> When did the behavior of yum WRT its cache change? Is it documented 
>> anywhere that by default it no longer keeps packages in its cache.
>>
> 
> man yum.conf
> 
>        keepcache
>               Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. Determines whether or not yum keeps the
> cache
>               of  headers  and packages after successful installation.
> Default
>               is ’1’ (keep files)
> 
> Then in /etc/yum.conf for fc5 keepcache=0
> 
> I thought, but I can't find the note, that this was mentioned in the
> release notes.
> 
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 
> 
OK, so you blew one. It just goes to show that even top notch guys screw 
up once in a while. ;-)

Thanks for the excellent work, Seth.

rh




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