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AI-generatedDoes conda's local repodata TTL let `conda search` miss newly published packages?
Conda stores per-channel repodata and a parsed index under the package cache directory, so both conda search and the solver may read a local snapshot rather than the live channel. The local_repodata_ttl setting defines how long that snapshot is considered fresh; entries younger than the TTL are reused instead of refetched. The documented way to force a refre