I have a Very Dumb Question about yum configuration -- which, I suspect, is more of a Fedora question than a yum question. (I run only Fedora.) I run five FC5 machines -- two on my desk all the time, and a testbed machine often enough to keep updated (all three behind the same KVM switch); one downstairs on my wife's desk, mostly over ssh; and a laptop only when I'm upgrading one of my three, and have to have it out from behind the KVM switch, or perhaps if we have a house guest who needs to get online while here. All five run behind the same router, directly or through a switch, when they run at all; and the router is behind a cable modem. All are set to do yum update nightly, when connected and booted. I don't count on the automatic updates, however, but also run yum update from time to time, whenever I have a minute and think of it. Once in a while one or another machine gets something new, or hits some problem. I happened to remember just now that I used at one time to do "yum update kernel" separately from "yum update" -- because, iirc, "exclude=kernel" was included by default in /etc/yum.conf under each new release of Fedora. So I thought to look on a couple of them. Sure enough, I don't see any "exclude=<anything>" anywhere. Sounds like there must have been a major victory I'm blissfully unaware of, somewhere. But I do notice some differences, and I wonder if they're things I need to learn about. The following are present on some machines and not others, and not afaik by any doing of mine -- or else they result from something I did so long ago I've forgotten it ... One machine has a line saying "keepcache=0" and two have nothing of the sort -- nothing about keepcache at all. (The laptop and the testbed aren't running at the moment.) One has a line saying "retries=20" and two have nothing about retries. Two say "plugins=1" and one says nothing about plugins. Two say "metadata_expire=1800" and one says nothing about metadata. Do I need to do anything about any of these differences? Boot up the quasi-supernumerary machines and check them, too? Or just let well enough alone? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler, Neo- Redneck Retiree, Not Quite Clueless FC Power User
