How do I get yum to see updates to a local repo without cleaning cache?

I have set up a local yum repository which I use to install test builds. For the testing purposes, my packages are versioned by <svn version number>.<date>.<time> (e.g. 12345.20110908.150404

The trouble is, once I make a new RPM, copy it to the repository directory and run createrepo $REPO_DIR, yum does not see the new RPM as being available.

$ cd $REPO_DIR $ ls -1 repodata package-12345.20110908.150404-1.x86_64.rpm package-12345.20110908.174329-1.x86_64.rpm $ createrepo . # ...snip... $ rpm -q package package-12345.20110908.150404-1.x86_64 $ yum list --showduplicates package Installed Packages package.x86_64 12345.20110908.150404-1 @repo Available Packages package.x86_64 12345.20110908.150404-1 repo 

I can see the updates and grab them if I run yum clean all and then re-fetch the metadata, but I think this just means I need to be doing something else from the repo, as I don't have to do that for other yum repos.

How do I need to set up my local repository so that I only need to run yum update from the client without having to clean my yum cache?

5 Answers

You can run "yum clean expire-cache" which is much more efficient way to tell yum to check the repos. ... the other thing to do would be to change the metadata_expire value for the local repo. (see man yum.conf).

Try adding following line in /etc/yum.conf on Yum clients:

metadata_expire=1m

Following command shows you more info:

man yum.conf

FYI. CentOS 5 has the parameter commented out. CentOS 6.2 has 90m for the value.

yum clean metadata cleans up just the cached names and such, after which yum reloads its idea of what is available.

Just had the same issue, try:

yum clean all

yum's --enablerepo=localrpmrepo is the option you are after. so

yum --enablerepo=localrpmrepo clean metadata 

replace localrpmrepo with your repos name