2015-11-16 23:53 GMT-06:00 Sudhir Khanger <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Monday 16 Nov 2015 11:23:30 PM Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco wrote: >> So the unique limit you have is delimited by the space you have to >> store data on your /var/cache/dnf, many people recommends having /var/ >> in a dedicated partition, even on a dedicated disk. The are not limit >> on the size apart from the size of the disk/partition, there are not >> limit on the number of packages nor it's numbers of versions. >> > > Do you mean that keepcache=1 will keep all versions of all packages, even from > 3rd party repos and manually installed rpms, in cache '/var/cache/dnf' forever > as long as storage permits it? > > That sounds exactly like python-dnf-plugins-extras-local. What is the > difference between keepcache=1 and the local plugin. > > Can the cache location be saved in any other location like home folder which > as a lot more space than / folder which in my case is only 20 GiB? > >> > It probably seems it is best to setup dnf-local-plugin which keeps all the >> > packages ever installed on my system. >> >> You may keep all of the installed package un /var/cache, but not >> having many diferent version installed at the same time. >> > > I am not very clear on what you are trying to say. dnf-plugins-extras-local > will create a local repo, at a location of your choice, and keep all packages > including all versions ever installed/updated on your system. > This is how I created local repos on a usb with the cache in the memorables yum days. Slides are in spanish: https://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Slides/repos_en_usb.pdf This is a video tutorial based on the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrvXbFxJfY I have not tried to create a local repo using dnf, I don't know how dnf will handle this task or if dnf is able to handle it, I will test it and share the news in this thread. > -- > Regards, > Sudhir Khanger, > sudhirkhanger.com. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
