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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:03 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote:
> > I hope Tim (ignored_mailbox) will not see your advice. He recently
> was
> > very angry about yum clean all. Now it's forbidden to give such
> advice
> > ;-)
> Why is that? that worked for me two times in a row now, why is it
> forbidden? O_o For future reference.

The only reason to use "yum clean all" instead of "yum clean metadata"
is if you're running out of space because of cached packages. Then you
get to waste bandwidth (not to mention server resources) downloading
them again.

"yum clean metadata" has solved every problem I've ever had that "yum
clean all" would have solved. I would be interested to hear *reasoned*
argument about why this might not always be the case (apart from the
disk space issue already mentioned).

poc