[Yum-devel] metadata_expire adjustment

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:45 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:42 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-02-12 at 14:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > >  So lots of people are pissing and moaning about the metadata_expiration
> > > time being too long. Let's ignore the fact that they can adjust them and
> > > talk  about what is a reasonable time.
> > > 
> > > Right now the time is 8 hours.
> > > 
> > > Suggestions have been: 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 1/2 hour or 1hours
> > > 
> > > any comments?
> > 
> > I'd say 30 minutes or 1 hour. Actually 1 hour sounds more like something
> > people would be happier with. It's arbitrary, really. :)
> 
> right - no matter how short it is someone is going to bitch and moan.

Indeed.  But no matter what we do, someone will complain :-)  I think 30
or 60 minutes are probably reasonable.  Also, I'm going to explicitly
add what the timeout is in yum.conf (even if it matches the default) to
help make it a little bit more discoverable.

Jeremy