On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:50am, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 1/10/07, Lamont Peterson <lamont gurulabs com> wrote:
> > Yes you can, just copy /var/cache/yum/ to a USB keychain drive (or SD
> > card, or ...) or burn it to a disc. However, because the cache will
> > change almost daily, this could get tedious.
>
> Maybe its just my setups, but my /var/cache/yum wouldn't be worth
> sharing. Comparing the contents of the directory either side of an
> install resulted in no change. Is a copy of the package supposed to
> be in there?
You need to edit /etc/yum.conf and change keepcache to 1. This defaulted to 0
(i.e., delete the package files after they're installed) as of FC5, IIRC.
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