Keeping old versions of packages

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:47:38 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:24:49 +0200,
>    Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >I'm not sure this solves the initial problem - downloading new
> >metadata every 6 hours or so ...
> 
> Does the metadata really need to be downloaded or just checked to see
> if it is current?

The metadata doesn't get downloaded if it hasn't changed - the problem
though is that the metadata DOES change often. Normally everyday.

-sv