Re: [IBMiOSS] RPM files in /QOpenSys/var/cache/...?

That makes sense.

This came to my attention because our monthly disk space report showed a number of very large files. If they're retained only to make reinstallation more convenient, I'll probably remove them. Thank you



-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Bartell [mailto:aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2018 12:53 PM
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] RPM files in /QOpenSys/var/cache/...?

Any idea what the reasoning is? Since there's a setting, it seems
there

must be reasons for doing it both ways.

It prevents it from needing to be downloaded again. For example, you could remove git and then reinstall it. It would first check for a cached version before downloading.

Another situation this would be very useful for is installing into chroot containers(n1). Unfortunately, yum looks inside of the container for a cached rpm instead of in the base of PASE/IFS. Well, if you just created the container then it obviously wouldn't be cached inside of the container (yet).

n1 - yum --installroot=/QOpenSys/containers/developer1 install git

Aaron Bartell
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:19 PM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't ever been in that file, so that must be the IBM default.

Any idea what the reasoning is? Since there's a setting, it seems
there must be reasons for doing it both ways.


Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Bartell [mailto:aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2018 9:55 AM
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] RPM files in /QOpenSys/var/cache/...?

Yes, if your configs says so.

┌─[aaron @ KT4001]─[~]
└─[$]› cat /QOpenSys/etc/yum/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/QOpenSys/var/cache/yum
keepcache=1
debuglevel=2
logfile=/QOpenSys/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1


# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in
/QOpenSys/etc/yum/repos.d



Aaron Bartell
IBM i hosting, starting at $157/mo litmis.com/spaces



On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:46 AM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is it normal for the RPM files for installed apps to be retained in
this dir?
/QOpenSys/var/cache/yum/ibm/packages/



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