Yum file storage?

Johan Scheepers johansche at telkomsa.net
Mon Dec 27 07:57:00 UTC 2010


On 12/27/2010 09:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:09:05 +0200
> Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>  wrote:
>
>> Good day,
>>
>> Using>>  Fedora 14 x86_64
>>
>> I am trying to locate the rpms that was downloaded when updating.
>>
>> These paths seems a blanks  ..
>>
>> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/fedora/packages
>>
>> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/deltas
>>
>> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/packages
>>
>> Maybe somewhere else?
>>
>> If the above is correct, why no packages.
>
> By default, yum doesn't keep packages around after it's used them to
> update or install.
>
> You can change this by modifying /etc/yum.conf and changing:
>
> keepcache=0
>
> to
>
> keepcache=1
>
> See 'man yum.conf' for more information.
>
> kevin
>
Thanks Kevin,

Now could such saved packages be reused.

Like storing them on a spare drive and then make a install of the same 
version on another drive or computer? Then updating that install with 
these packages?
Thanks
Johan




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