--=-4HKLg2tuE7QrZn4D/i6c Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I'm thinking seth might not be really excited about this, but how > about an option to yum that makes it update its cache of headers > and/or rpms without installing/upgrading/removing anything? so it won't update a dir of rpms unless it knows you want to do something. And if you want to keep a complete archive of rpms, use rsync. its safer and intended for this job. =20 > This might be nice to if you want to have it do all of the slow stuff > overnight, but don't quite trust it enough to let it do everything. > You can get SOME of this functionality by just waiting until morning > to hit 'y', but I think it still needs to get the rpms, then, right? yes but its much easier to throw them in the cachedir - the cache checking is fairly unintelligent - is the file there? if so then use it. > I think it would be reasonable to have yum automatically remove rpms > from the cache after they are successfully installed. You'd also need > to provide a --clean-cache command though in case people never > followed through on the install. These would be slightly more > advanced features, but I wouldn't think they'd be too hard to > implement. yum clean [packages| headers | oldheaders ] having it run automatically is definitely an option - I'd probably just want yum clean packages running - but the default action for just 'yum clean' is oldheaders and packages. =20 > Related, and this might address rgb's comments better... you could > provide multiple caches for yum to look in for rpms, perhaps giving > each of them an optional 'noremove' flag for shared caches. I don't think that helps the problem and just increases the complexity for the urlgrabbing. It would also mean doing A LOT of work if/when file urls are supported. though its not impossible - just more work. :-/ -sv --=-4HKLg2tuE7QrZn4D/i6c 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 iD8DBQA9EAk71Aj3x2mIbMcRAokJAJ0f6gxvmidejKY/2f3gYPOw3DyrpQCfQIJw lwgBq3kdzbuHNE/6U1x3hhE= =w9cV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4HKLg2tuE7QrZn4D/i6c--
