On 11/05/2016 05:01 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >> Add to this that these caches seem to be never cleaned, so that they >> grow up very large up to the point they prevent updating the system. I >> just found that the packagekit cache on my machine is about 7Gb !!! >> Probably because I do use packageit at all (dnf cache is much smaller at >> ~700 Mb). > > IMHO, this is a feature, and the DNF default behavior is the bug, a critical > data loss bug even! Given that Fedora does NOT keep old updates on its > mirrors, the only convenient way to revert a broken update is to keep ALL > old updates cached locally. Otherwise, you have to hunt down the old builds > directly in Koji. The version from the GA release is more often than not TOO > old, you really want the previous update. > > I consider it very broken to delete files that I might still need without > even asking me. Setting keepcache=1 is the one of the very first things I do > to any new Fedora installation. Well, if I understand well. You tell us that because fedora repos do not keep versions of old packages, all fedora machine have to keep them locally ?? And that just in case they want to revert a package. Honestly, why on earth would one ask every fedora machine to have copies of something that is not even kept in the original repo ? To me, if the other solutions that were proposed are not OK for some reason, it is the fedora repo policy of not keeping old updates that is wrong.... Given the usual thoughtfull posts you usually make in this list, I fear I have not well understood what you say or I'm missing some point.... Otherwise, let's not correct a bug by creating other bugs.... Theo.
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