On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 04:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 02:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> For those who didn't know, metadata_expire value in yum.conf can control > >> how much time yum will rely on the existing metadata before trying to > >> refresh it. f you want the behaviour to be similar to apt, then you can > >> set it to never as well. The default value is 6 hours now. > >> > >> I had a recent discussion with Seth Vidal, the primary developer of yum > >> about increasing it to a day instead of 6 hours. We are now looking for > >> input from you, the Fedora users on what value would be appropriate. If > >> you have fiddled around with this setting, let me know what you think. > >> If you haven't try it out and I would appreciate your feedback as well. > > > > I set it to 1800 i.e. 30 minutes. I do that because I prefer to run yum > > myself rather than use the various PackageConf daemons. > > I am not sure what you mean by PackgeConf daemons. Perhaps I should have said "the annoying applets that pester me about updates" :-) > This setting only > controls how often the metadata is refreshed when you run yum directly. That's sort of what I meant to get at. When I run yum I prefer it to check out the latest repo information. I leave it at 30 minutes rather than 0 because occasionally one has to run yum more than once in a short period of time. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
