Yum repo autorefresh setting

Question

Following Sonatype's documentation for Nexus 2 and Yum repositories for many years, I've faithfully added:

autorefresh=1

to my Yum repos. However, looking at the man page for yum.conf on RHEL 7, 6 and 5(!), I don't see any reference to that setting. Is it fictional?

Answer 1

According to the manual, yes. There's no mention of an "autorefresh" option for yum repos.

Answer 2

Its a SuSE Zypper thing it seems, not Yum's.

Though I couldn't find it in the manpage (except a command line option), its documented on Ansible at least: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/zypper_repository_module.html

Here is the manpage: https://www.unix.com/man-page/suse/8/zypper/