Am 03.01.2014 03:05, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > To me, this is the real showstopper: > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#keepcache-configuration-option-dropped > (By the way, how does PackageKit-hawkey behave there?) > > The keepcache=0 default in Fedora is IMHO a CRITICAL DATA LOSS BUG and I > ALWAYS change that broken default to 1 on my machines. This ensures that if > an update is broken, I can always revert to the previous update that I still > have cached, not only to the ancient version from GA that might not even > install anymore, and that also has many bugs and security issues! Especially > considering that Fedora does not keep previous updates on its mirrors, it is > TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE to delete the cache by default, and EVEN MORE > UNACCEPTABLE to remove the keepcache option entirely! ok, until this is fixed DNF is a complete no-go * there is no need to completly mirror the fedora repos because on our buildserver are exactly 1170 installed and they cover any setup over a lot of machines, after a dist-upgrade within a minute the cache is filled * it's unacepptable to download updates (regulary and dist-upgrades) on each machine in a production environment because unpredictable results in case of different mirrors as well as you can't update test-servers and after all is fine two days later their production-buddy * it is a useless burden for the mirror traffic this script below works since many years and anybody who thinks /var/cache/yum/ is not important never had to maintain 10, 20, 30 or more Fedora machines root@buildserver:~]$ cat /buildserver/repo-cache.sh #!/usr/bin/bash basearch=`uname -i` releasever=`rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" fedora-release` for g in `ls -1b /var/cache/yum` do if [ -d /var/cache/yum/$g/packages ] then echo "/var/cache/yum/$g/packages/ > /repo/cache/fc$releasever/" sudo mv --verbose /var/cache/yum/$g/packages/*.rpm /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ 2> /dev/null fi done /buildserver/repo-create.sh
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