Backing up yum rpm's

schnappy · 03-06-2009, 06:37 PM

Hey,
I'm wanting to backup all the packages I've downloaded with yum. But I can't find the RPM's anywhere...

Cheers

T74marcell · 03-06-2009, 08:40 PM

I don't think that those yum installed RPM's are really stored on your PC, at least not as RPM packages. During installation or upgrading the RPM contents are applied, the RPM database updates and depending on your configuration some revision files stored, but not the whole package AFAIK. Keeping them all would take a lot of disk space.

If you want to be able to restore your system to a known state, then you should check out the yum documentation: some people are able to make it reverse packages to earlier versions, including dependency solving.

Arch Linux

Maligree · 03-07-2009, 03:57 AM

According to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/en...-caching.html:

Quote:

By default, yum stores temporary files under the directory /var/cache/yum/, with one subdirectory for each configured repository. The packages/ directory within each repository directory holds the cached packages. For example, the directory /var/cache/yum/development/packages/ holds packages downloaded from the development repository.

EDIT: By the way, make sure you don't miss this:

Quote:

To configure yum to retain downloaded files rather than discarding them, set the keepcache option in /etc/yum.conf to 1:

I have no way of checking that myself right now, unfortunately.

knudfl · 03-08-2009, 03:48 AM

# 3 Maligree : That is correct, the files are stored in
/var/cache/yum/<reponame>/packages/

Examples
/var/cache/yum/fedora/packages/
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages/
/var/cache/yum/rpmfusion-free/packages/
/var/cache/yum/rpmfusion-nonfree/packages/
/var/cache/yum/rpmfusion-free-updates/packages/
/var/cache/yum/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/packages/

To keep the packages ( for backup )
1) su
2) gedit /etc/yum.conf
and edit the line 'keepcache=0' to keepcache=1 ( line 3, usually )
as said by @Maligree.

The 'rpmfusion.org repo' : http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
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