On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:34 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: >> I have myself found that "yum clean all" apparently fixes many >> problems even when I'm not sure why it should. When I have a problem >> updating, I usually start with cleaning the cache and metadata just to >> establish a baseline. Ninety percent of the time, this first step >> makes my problem go away. But apparently that approach means I'm >> stupid. > > Have you tried "yum clean metadata" in any of these cases, rather than > "yum clean all"? If not, how do you know that the former would not have > worked? > > My personal experience is that cleaning metadata has *always* fixed > problems without the need for cleaning the cache. That may not be > everyone's experience, but it is mine. Even if it doesn't always work, > it is always faster, and doesn't stop you cleaning the cache later if > you need to. IOW the sensible procedure is: > > yum clean metadata > iff that doesn't solve the problem: yum clean all > > poc That's two operations! My personal experience is that very few packages are in the yum package cache when I encounter a problem.. I have an acceptable speed network connection (8 MBits/S) so the cost of re-downloading packages is not a big factor for me. The "clean all" option is more efficient for me than iteratively going through the "clean" options one at a time. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
