2015-11-16 23:53 GMT-06:00 Sudhir Khanger <ml(a)sudhirkhanger.com>:
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?
Yes, even from 3rd party repos like frpm-fusion and google-chrome
cache. The correct line is:
keepcache=true
I don't know which effects has keepcache=1, I don't use this since
last time I used yum.
Yes as long a storage permits it or as long you want to keep it, a
"dnf clean all" will delete all of the packages stored on the cache.
That sounds exactly like python-dnf-plugins-extras-local. What is
the
difference between keepcache=1 and the local plugin.
I don't know, this is the first time that I hear of
python-dnf-extras-local, not sure what it does or for what is intended
for.
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?
In yum days... yes, now days... yes, but I don't know if it is
possible to create a local repo, in a usb for example, starting from
these files.
> > 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.
Sorry, my bad, what I mean is:
1. You install a package foo-1.0.fc23.x86_64.rpm
2. The package is running on your system, version:1.0, and also the
rpm file from which you installed, is stored on /var/cache/dnf.
3. An update come, foo-1.1.fc23.x86_64.rpm.
4. After updating you end up with: foo-1.1fc23.x86_64.rpm running on
your system, foo-1.1.fc23.x86_64.rpm stored on /var/cache/dnf/
alongside foo-1.0.fc23.x86_64.rpm.
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Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.
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