[FALSE ALARM] Re: yum update and f12

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Fri Jul 23 05:32:29 UTC 2010


On 7/21/2010 11:11 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> The first time you would run "yum update" on a machine that has been
> offline for a long time, it would notice that the timestamp file
> /var/cache/yum/i386/12/updates/cachecookie  is a lot older than 1.5 hours,
> and hence it would connect to the "updates" repo to check whether more
> recent metadata are available.
>    

I am going to do more frequent checks (log in and see what Fedora tells 
me) to see if small deltas show up quicker than "multiple months". Both 
machines are updated and happy.

Thanks for help,
Paul


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