yum ignoring cached packaged?

[Florian La Roche]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:15:02AM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> I'm updating a rawhide system that hasn't seen an update
> in about a month. The yum update managed to download 750 meg
> of rpms but didn't have enough disk space to install them.
> 
> I ran update on gnome, then kde. Yum used the cached
> files. I decided to update yum itself. On the next update
> yum rebuilt the sqlite cache. Subsequent yum updates are
> now downloading the rpm's again, ignoring about 500 meg
> of files sitting in /var/cache/yum.
> 
> Is this a bug or expected behaviour?

New expected behaviour. To get the old default behaviour,
you can set "metadata_expire=0" in the main or per-repo
section.

regards,

Florian La Roche