Bug 174715

Summary: clean all in 2.4.1-1 reacting badly with the new cache feature
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jef Spaleta <jspaleta>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version: 4CC: atigro, gczarcinski, katzj, nicolas.mailhot, okapi, pmatilai
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Patch to clean cookies along with metadata none

Description Jef Spaleta 2005-12-01 17:19:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
cachecookie files are not being cleaned as part of clean operations.
as a result the next run of yum can't find the repodata and no longer attempts
to contact a server to refresh.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.1-1

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install 2.4.1-1
2. yum check-update  to see mirror contact and to create the cookie files
3. yum check-update  to see the new caching prevents contacting a mirror
4. yum clean all
5. yum check-update  instant death.  
6. remove all cachecookie files in the cache directory tree
7. yum check-update   works as expected



Additional info:

what is the default length of time till cookies expire?
how do i configure that length of time?
and how do i turn this feature off?
Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2005-12-01 18:49:04 UTC 
hyperbole, much?
answers:
- the clean command should kill off this cookie, I agree - I'll look into it
- it's documented in the man page: metadata_expire=0 will disable the caching
- the current time is 8 hours and then it goes away. It can be set per-repo, of
course, so for the rapidly changing repos you can set it low and for the
uncommonly changing repos you can leave it alone.
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2005-12-01 19:44:56 UTC 
Created attachment 121703 [details]
Patch to clean cookies along with metadata

Patch as suggested by Seth on yum-devel:
- clean the cookies on 'yum clean metadata' instead of separate operation
- force refresh of cookies on 'yum makecache'
Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2005-12-02 03:49:19 UTC 
Panu, check it in. And Jeremy, if you want apply this as a patch to fedora's yum
package for 2.4.1 and give it another test run in updates-testing, okay?
Comment 4 Seth Vidal 2005-12-03 05:28:27 UTC 
*** Bug 174864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2005-12-04 17:17:40 UTC 
*** Bug 174938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2005-12-05 16:00:23 UTC 
Applied Panu's patch as well as the change to bump the default cache time to 30
minutes for FC4 updates and devel
Comment 7 Seth Vidal 2005-12-06 15:12:15 UTC 
*** Bug 175076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***