I think it's configurable somewhere and the default is every 90 min. I have my system installed from the minimal iso and I noticed yum doesn't seem to have this behaviour so maybe it's one of its plugins the culprit? --- Em qui, 31/5/12, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> escreveu: De: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com> Assunto: yum downloading its indexes all the time is a major PITA Para: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> Data: Quinta-feira, 31 de Maio de 2012, 19:38 Isn' t there a way to config yum to only download its repo indexes only once a dar and not every single bloody time I invoke yum for something else other than install? (ie I call Yum whatprovides something and get $ yum whatprovides vlc Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit [Useless, unneeded, unwanted downloading follows...] Dropbox                                                  |  951 B     00:00     Dropbox/primary                                          | 1.5 kB     00:00     fedora/metalink                                          |  40 kB     00:00     fedora                                                   | 4.2 kB     00:00     fedora/primary_db                                        |  12 MB     00:47     fedora/group_gz                                          | 434 kB     00:03     google-chrome                                            |  951 B     00:00     google-chrome/primary                                    | 1.5 kB     00:00     google-earth                                             |  951 B     00:00     google-earth/primary                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00     livna                                                    | 3.6 kB     00:00     livna/primary_db                                         | 3.4 kB     00:00     livna/group_gz                                           |  464 B     00:00     rpmfusion-free                                           | 3.3 kB     00:00     rpmfusion-free/primary_db                                | 335 kB     00:02     rpmfusion-free/group_gz                                  | 1.6 kB     00:00     rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB     00:00     rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                        | 9.6 kB     00:00     rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz                          | 1.6 kB     00:00     updates/metalink                                         |  45 kB     00:00     updates                                                  | 4.5 kB     00:00     updates/primary_db                                       | 1.4 MB     00:05     updates/group_gz                                         | 434 kB     00:01     Dropbox                                                                     4/4 google-chrome                                                               3/3 google-earth                                                                1/1 vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,                       : player and server Repo        : rpmfusion-free vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,                       : player and server Repo        : @rpmfusion-free-updates-testing FC -- Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell -----Anexo incorporado----- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org