Adding Doron, I found one reason - if local repository files are updated, and hashes needs to be re-generated.
Alon ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Wu" <wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > To: "Douglas Schilling Landgraf" <dougsl...@redhat.com> > Cc: "VDSM Project Development" <vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:41:57 AM > Subject: [vdsm] Why do we need clean yum cache during bootstrap? > > Hi Douglas, > > Why do we need clean yum cache before installing packages during host > installation? It could cause a ssh timeout somtimes. On my test VM, > it > needs several minutes do download yum metatada. Please see the test > below: > > [root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > fedora/metalink > | 8.6 kB 00:00 > fedora > | 4.2 kB 00:00 > fedora/primary_db > | 14 MB 00:11 > fedora/group_gz > | 434 kB 00:00 > ovirt-nightly > | 1.3 kB 00:00 > ovirt-nightly/primary > | 31 kB 00:00 > ovirt-stable > | 1.3 kB 00:00 > ovirt-stable/primary > | 15 kB 00:00 > updates/metalink > | 4.6 kB 00:00 > updates > | 4.7 kB 00:00 > updates/primary_db > | 5.9 MB 03:28 > updates/group_gz > | 434 kB 00:21 > ovirt-nightly > 183/183 > ovirt-stable > 69/69 > No Packages marked for Update > > real 4m33.527s > user 0m5.741s > sys 0m0.772s > > [root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > No Packages marked for Update > > real 0m1.184s > user 0m1.048s > sys 0m0.115s > > > Thanks! > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > vdsm-devel mailing list > vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel > _______________________________________________ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
