http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204956 Bug ID: 1204956 Summary: Cached repo packages are deleted Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.4 Hardware: Other OS: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: bugz57@top.geek.nz QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- OpenSUSE doesn't have a mechanism for caching repo content locally for sharing between hosts, mirrors around here can be slow and bad, plus I see it as bad style to waste server bandwidth. So the next best thing is sharing /var/cache/zypp/packages/. That works only if the configured repos on all hosts are identical. Any host which does not have a repo configured proceeds to simply delete all cached content of that repo. Please - not having a downloaded-rpms-cache is pretty bad in my opinion, but going out of the way to delete already downloaded data is not acceptable. It is my understanding that the package updates are controlled by the repo metadata anyway that is downloaded when refreshing repos, and there should be no need to delete any already downloaded rpm. Old hardware these days is likely RAM bound, but not disk-space bound, and anyone really having space problems can manually delete /var/cache/zypp/packages/ without detriment to future package updates. Can zypper please refrain from deleting any already downloaded rpms/drpms? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.