On Monday 16 Nov 2015 11:23:30 PM Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco wrote:
So the unique limit you have is delimited by the space you have to
store data on your /var/cache/dnf, many people recommends having /var/
in a dedicated partition, even on a dedicated disk. The are not limit
on the size apart from the size of the disk/partition, there are not
limit on the number of packages nor it's numbers of versions.
Do you mean that keepcache=1 will keep all versions of all packages, even from
3rd party repos and manually installed rpms, in cache '/var/cache/dnf' forever
as long as storage permits it?
That sounds exactly like python-dnf-plugins-extras-local. What is the
difference between keepcache=1 and the local plugin.
Can the cache location be saved in any other location like home folder which
as a lot more space than / folder which in my case is only 20 GiB?
> It probably seems it is best to setup dnf-local-plugin which
keeps all the
> packages ever installed on my system.
You may keep all of the installed package un /var/cache, but not
having many diferent version installed at the same time.
I am not very clear on what you are trying to say. dnf-plugins-extras-local
will create a local repo, at a location of your choice, and keep all packages
including all versions ever installed/updated on your system.
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Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.