Fedora-release RPMS ?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 24 01:17:05 UTC 2009


On 11/24/2009 06:45 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> Is this one of the few times when a 'yum clean all' is a good idea?
> 
> (eg. Will yum even still find all the old cached files when the release
> version changes like that?  If not, it might be a good time to do a full
> housecleaning and nuke the old rpm files.)

If the repo content matches the cache, yum will reuse it. It doesn't
matter whether the release has changed or not. Not all packages are
rebuild for every release.

Rahul




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