On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:29 -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
With the new metadata format - yum appears to download 3M of
metadata
for rawhide - eachtime yum in invoked.
no.
---
% yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo: development
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 944 kB 00:03
developmen: ################################################## 3523/3523
---
I'm guessing the 3523 referes to 3523 kB - and probably referes to
repodata/filelists.xml.gz (and perhaps other files)
Isn't this a lot more datatansfer than the older format? (for each yum
invocation)
the #### is just reading in the metadata.
I added some text output to yum 2.1.2 - hitting rawhide tonight,
hopefully, that helps explain that.
==== are downloads
#### are importing/reading.
-sv