Looking for input on yum metadata_expire option

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 10 21:29:11 UTC 2009


Hi

For those who didn't know, metadata_expire value in yum.conf can control 
how much time yum will rely on the existing metadata before trying to 
refresh it. f you want the behaviour to be similar to apt, then you can 
set it to never as well. The default value is 6 hours now.

I had a recent discussion with Seth Vidal, the primary developer of yum 
about increasing it to a day instead of 6 hours. We are now looking for 
input from you, the Fedora users on what value would be appropriate. If 
you have fiddled around with this setting, let me know what you think. 
If you haven't try it out and I would appreciate your feedback as well.

Thanks,

Rahul






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