Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 09:06 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 08/15/2009 08:22 AM, Tim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 02:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >>  If the rpms are currently in the cache directory you'd want them
> >>  someplace else so that they don't get deleted by yum.
> >
> > Or set yum to not delete the cache...
> 
> Which you can do by editing /etc/yum.conf and
> changing the line:
> 
>     keepcache=0
> 
>   to
> 
>     keepcache=1

As I said earlier, it would be useful to keep only the latest versions,
i.e. when a package is updated, remove the old cached rpm. Maybe that's
what keepcache=1 already does, but the man page is not clear.

poc