yum updates does not keep packages

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Mark Panen wrote:
> Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
> updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
> on Fedora 7.
> 
> Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on disk.

Man yum.conf .  Look for 'keepcache'. The manual page says that 
preserving the cache is default, but in the fedora provided yum.conf the 
setting is effectively set to delete after successful installation.

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 x86_64