[Yum] yum clean policy question,

[James Antill]

Łukasz Tasz <lukasz at tasz.eu> writes:

> Finally machine is installed using software from different vendors,
> different releases lifecycles.
> Update of softvare from external vendors is made independently, that's
> why by default repos are disabled.
> I don't see anything wrong/strange over here. Some times it's
> happening that vendors are changing repositories locations,
> and yum sometimes is not able to fetch rpm's, then "yum clean all
> --enab...." is fixing the problem.

 I would solve this my creating local shadow repos. for the external
vendor repos. ... then manually check the external repos. and move
data across into your local shadow repos.
 There are a number of tools that can help with this, like RHN or
pulp.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org