On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:42 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Mark Panen wrote:
> Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the
> updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me
> on Fedora 7.
>
> Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on
disk.
Man yum.conf . Look for 'keepcache'. The manual page says that
preserving the cache is default, but in the fedora provided yum.conf the
setting is effectively set to delete after successful installation.
Huh, glad you mentioned it as I read that bit about preserving the cache
as default and didn't both to check it. Thanx, Ric
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