On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:52, Guenther Fischer wrote: > Hi, > we got some trouble with yum growing up /var/cache/yum too much. If we > have tu install/update a lot of packages (typically after > autoinstallation) yum will fail. > Why does yum cache all the packages, all packages come from local network, > why not installing diectly from there? 1. b/c people seem to like the cache if they aren't on a very fast connection 2. it increases the reliability of the transaction b/c yum can be more fault tolerant and mirror-allowing (as it is in the 1.9x versions) than rpm is internally. 3. disk is cheap, network bandwidth is, typically, less cheap. you could add 'yum -y -d 0 -e 0 clean packages' to your yum.cron script. that would minimize the growth to once an evening. -sv
