On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:55 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Note that the downloaded update packages remain under /var/cache/yum > >> even after they are installed. If you have other systems you > >> can copy them in place so you don't have to download again or > >> if you don't have other systems you can 'yum clean all' to remove > >> them and save space. > >> > > > > I think, just for the record, thats only true for FC4. For FC5 the default > > behavior was switched to delete them after installation. > > > Another feature I don't want! > > What do I change to prevent yum from deleting them? > There are two changes between FC4 and FC5 that bothered me. Both are ones you mention. 1. The delete of packages after updates were complete. I fixed that by editing one line in /etc/yum.conf and changed keepcache=0 to keepcache=1 2. The keeping of only 2 kernel versions with kernel update (running plus new). That is fixed by changing one line in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf from tokeep=2 to tokeep=4. Note that you can set that value to whatever you choose and it will keep a total of the specified kernel versions installed. I do wish it was easier to find the fixes for this, but at least it is easy to solve once you know where to make the changes. > I prefer to control what my computer does and such things really bother > me. > I updated the kernel and it left me only one earlier one, deleted the rest! > > I searched through the yum and yumex files and it's not obvious to me where > this is set. > > /etc/yumex.conf > > Has a line "autocleanup = no" set to "no" in response to a menu item I > found but > I still don't find any saved rpm's. With FC4 those rpm's were a > resource I used > in other computers ... > > Thanks. > > Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod >
