On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:42 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > Mark Panen wrote: > > Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the > > updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me > > on Fedora 7. > > > > Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on disk. > > Man yum.conf . Look for 'keepcache'. The manual page says that > preserving the cache is default, but in the fedora provided yum.conf the > setting is effectively set to delete after successful installation. Huh, glad you mentioned it as I read that bit about preserving the cache as default and didn't both to check it. Thanx, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
