yum updates does not keep packages

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sun Sep 2 09:37:45 UTC 2007


On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:41, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> Mark

Hi Mark. As root in a text editor go to /etc/yum.conf , and change the 
keepcache line so that it reads:
keepcache=1

Nigel.




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