Tim wrote: > Hi, > > Below is the yum.conf I found after the recent key updates. The > descriptive comments are sadly lacking a vital bit of information (what > particular value/attribute "this" is). > > If we make *what* bigger? It can't mean the installonly_limit. I'm > guessing it refers to metadata_expire, but that's a guess, and it's not > used in the provided file. > > Anyone have any comments before I bugzilla it? > > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > keepcache=0 > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > exactarch=1 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > plugins=1 > installonly_limit=3 > > # This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata > # is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to > # download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct > # information. > # It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like > # Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking > # interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something > # manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this). > # metadata_expire=90m > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo > # in /etc/yum.repos.d > > An older yum.conf has as its last line.... metadata_expire=1800 This seems to match the comment -- How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
