On 13 March 2014 20:09, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 03/13/2014 07:04 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> Making RPMs and yum more efficient is great, don't get me wrong.
>
Making them faster != making them more efficient if they end up not
updating everything because they're using obsolete metadata. That's just
pushing the time needed for the upgrade into the future and pretending it
doesn't exist.
Having to wait for yum to download the repos metadata when using 'yum info'
or 'yum provides' is just too irritating, especially if you have a slow
internet connection and less than 3-4 hours ago you had to wait for the
metadata to be downloaded... I set metadata_expire=1d in /etc/yum.conf for
that particular reason.
With yum there's metadata_expire_filter which you gives you finer control
of when the metadata is udpated, but honestly I found it too complicated to
understand and opted for setting metadata_expire=1d; FWIW I've not had to
change that value, i.e I don't see any discrepancies when using yum.
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Ahmad Samir