[Yum-devel] Re: yum broken in testing-updates? (FC4)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 19:52 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:11 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 12/1/05, Jose' Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
> > > This will go no matter how repositories I disable. Is this a bug or a new way
> > > to deal with it in 2.4.1?
> > 
> > this test version of yum has a new cache feature to cache
> > repodata..for a period of time.
> > Go into your yum cache directory and look for cachecookie  files for each repo.
> > 
> > The clean all is NOT cleaning out the cookie files.. which are
> > controlling the timeout based caching feature. This is a bug... you
> > need to file it.
> 
> The attached patch adds 'clean cookies' operation + cleans them on 'yum
> clean all' operation as well. Didn't commit to yum cvs yet since I
> started wondering do we really want to call them "cookies" in the user
> interface?

1. removing fedora-test-list from the cc b/c of useless histrionics
there.

2. I think we should just add the cache clean out to the yum clean
metadata subroutine and add call into yum makecache to set
metadata_expire = 0 for the global config and all repo configs, then
run.

how's that sound?

-sv