NM key hassle

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Thu Mar 12 22:24:54 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> Seconded.  When things are working fine, yum takes care of itself.  
> 
> You *might* want to clear out downloaded packages, if drive space is
> important to you.
<snip>
> If you
> never want to keep them, you can set yum to not cache downloaded
> packages.

Which is the default on current Fedora releases.

> Though I like to keep them, so I can revert to an
> older package, should I have to recover from a fault, without having to
> trawl the internet looking for a mirror that still has them.

Likewise, although old packages should be available through
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ , which cuts down on searching.

James.

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