[Fedora-livecd-list] cachedir conflict... bug?

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:07:10 -0500
> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don't do that.  You're basically saying that you have a repository
>> named foo but foo is two different things depending on how you run.  
>>
>> [snip]
>>> Are there any genuine bugs in anything I described above?
>>> Shouldn't yum warn or error out when it sees the repodata arch
>>> conflict?  
>> repodata doesn't have an inherent archness.  You can have repodata
>> containing packages of all arches.  
> 
> FWIW in pungi I use a single cache name for all arches.  However for
> every single run I expire the metadata and require fresh metadata be
> downloaded.  This seems to work for me, not many people have complained
> about getting new repodata every run.
> 

What do you use to expire the metadata?  That sounds very useful.  I 
would like to keep a single cachedir mainly for the RPMS and not 
necessarily the metadata.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com