yum ignoring cached packaged?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:55 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
> Florian La Roche wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:15:02AM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> >> I'm updating a rawhide system that hasn't seen an update
> >> in about a month. The yum update managed to download 750 meg
> >> of rpms but didn't have enough disk space to install them.
> >>
> >> I ran update on gnome, then kde. Yum used the cached
> >> files. I decided to update yum itself. On the next update
> >> yum rebuilt the sqlite cache. Subsequent yum updates are
> >> now downloading the rpm's again, ignoring about 500 meg
> >> of files sitting in /var/cache/yum.
> >>
> >> Is this a bug or expected behaviour?
> > 
> > New expected behaviour. To get the old default behaviour,
> > you can set "metadata_expire=0" in the main or per-repo
> > section.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Florian La Roche
> > 
> Huh? Re-download RPMs it already has in it's cache, why would it be 
> designed to do that?
Are you sure it retains the packages? If it does have it in cache,
redownloading would of course be a bug but the default behavior doesnt
retain it anymore. 

Rahul