[Yum-devel] makecache process

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:09:40AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Right - we need it to not interrupt things and/or being annoying for
> people.
> I was thinking of something that runs every 6 hours. It means that
> chances are good the metadata will be current. Then adjust yum so that
> if the repomd.xml file is < 8 hours old don't check the repo for an
> update.

I hope these numbers will be flexible. :)

In our environment, metadata updates are (almost) guaranteed to only happen
at specific three hour intervals. Ideally, the metadata would always and
only get checked immediately after those times.

I realize this is highly specific to our setup. :)


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