Looking for input on yum metadata_expire option

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 02:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I set it to 1800 i.e. 30 minutes. I do that because I prefer to run yum
> myself rather than use the various PackageConf daemons.

I am not sure what you mean by PackgeConf daemons. This setting only 
controls how often the metadata is refreshed when you run yum directly.

Rahul