On Saturday 20 February 2021, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Hi,
4990 packages to upgrade, 3 to downgrade, 26 new, 1 to reinstall, 9 to remove. Overall download size: 3.94 GiB. Already cached: 7.18 GiB. Download only.
Fun, but why does the cached size outdo the overall size?
Cheers, Pete
The rpm's in the cache are not kept by default. If it they are kept, zypper does not purge any, so many versions of each rpm may pile up. This can be useful if you need to revert to an earlier version of an rpm or wish to seed the cache of other machines. I use the cache from one machine to seed the nearly identical machine, but rather than copying over old disused rpm's I may run a home made script to do a purge first. I can post the script if anyone's interested. Cheers, Michael