yum downloading its indexes all the time is a major PITA

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/01/2012 06:38 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Isn' t there a way to config yum to only download its repo indexes only once a dar
> and not every single bloody time I invoke yum for something else other than
> install? (ie I call Yum whatprovides something and get

Do you mean that if you issue "yum whatprovides vlc and then a few minutes later
issue "yum whatprovides gimp" the download occurs again?

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