Description of problem: According to the manpage, keepcache option should be enabled by default. In /etc/yum.conf however, the value of keepcache is set to 0. Either the conf file or the manpage needs to be fixed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11. How reproducible: It need to be reproduced. It is ever present on the system Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check /etc/yum.conf and notice that keepcache is 0 2. man yum says that keepcache is enabled by default Actual results: keepcache is disabled in yum.conf Expected results: keepcache should be enabled (or) manpage of yum should be fixed.
The default, if keepcache is not listed in the yum.conf file is enabled. This is what the man page says and it's true. The upstream yum.conf has keepcache=1, which overrides that. But Eg. the Fedora distro. yum.conf has keepcache=0 (which just repeats the default if it's not listed).