--=-8ertijgiZZwcpIErkjJb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 15:59, Troy Dawson wrote: > Howdy, > Don't you just love it now that we are doing more testing :) >=20 > Another comment/request dealing with yum clean. >=20 > Why does yum clean need to go to the server to get the latest header info= ? We=20 > had some discussion here, trying to think of a reason, but couldn't. >=20 > The basic idea is that you run 'yum clean' to clean up stuff that is on y= our=20 > local disk, and you don't really care what is on the server. Even if you= =20 > haven't ran any yum command for a month, and the server header has comple= tely=20 > changed, if I run 'yum clean', I just want it to clean up what I have loc= ally.=20 > If I had wanted the latest stuff, I would have ran one of the other yum= =20 > commands, like list, or upgrade, or something, but with yum clean, I don'= t=20 > care what is on the server. >=20 > I realize that we can use the -C option, and we will for now, but even so= ,=20 > unless there is some basic reason, we would like it so that 'yum clean' o= nly=20 > uses the local cache. This will not only save on user time, but the load= on=20 > the server as well. >=20 yah I had noticed that too. and even had put it in a private todo list as a "this needs to be fixed b/c it's silly" I think this will be easier b/c I've made the new default - if yum is run as not-root then go into cache-only mode - so, that means I can just check the function be called and set the cache mode to ignore it - but more importantly a yum clean call should just skip all the server-checking crap. hmm. I'll look at it again shortly. -sv --=-8ertijgiZZwcpIErkjJb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9WWd31Aj3x2mIbMcRAsXvAJsHvqUxezp1HzYPYRklHjJyeNDQ4ACbB/dw yJ7QznsMjw3KEZ2p46iW0MM= =cRVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8ertijgiZZwcpIErkjJb--
