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(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: De: Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com&gt; Assunto: yum downloading its indexes all the time is a major PITA Para: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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(a)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

On 06/01/2012 07:58 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Well, all I can say is that announcing on this list that you're not going to do any research on your own and are just going to rely on all the folks here to find and fix your problems very well may result in some folks ignoring your requests. :-) -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage

Am 01.06.2012 01:58, schrieb Fernando Cassia: totally wrong! there is a reason "man yum.conf" exists and people made a hard work for free writing them the better way would be to read it, be still unhappy with whatever defaults and complain about them with the solution

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:06 PM, <sergiocmailbox-fedorausers(a)yahoo.com.br&gt;wrote: That sounds like the right way to do things. However, I looked at /etc/yum.conf and found nothing that resembles that. --- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever keepcache=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 installonly_limit=3 exclude=openoffice.org-ure*,libreoffice-ure* -- (the last line added by me to prevet LO libs from stepping over Apache OpenOffice 3.4 files) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell

On 06/01/2012 07:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Look closely at the comments..... It is there.... -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote: Not sure if 'a few minutes' but I do remember yum installing something else in the morning, and when I did a yum whatprovides on the afternoon, it downloaded again. This is a major time waster. For starters, if I do a "yum (any operation other than install)" then nothing will break if the updating of repo indexes is SKIPPED ALTOGETHER. :) FC