Yum and SRPMs
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Nov 28 15:25:23 UTC 2005
> But I have to wonder...for yumdownloader and repoquery to work
> efficiently it still helps to pull in metadata about the srpm repos
> during yum runs. Out-of-date srpm information isn't particularly
> useful.
why? That's like saying - in order to work efficiently it's best if
firefox cache every page you've ever been to and all of those pages
you've NOT been to, too.
> If the magical mirrorlist and metadata caching makes it into the
> default yum configuration...how expensive does retrieving the srpm
> metadata become?
a little less than double the amount of data.
> At the very least I would certaintly want yum makecache to cache all
> the enabled repos including enabled srpm information.
If a source repo is not enabled then it's not enabled. The only thing
marking them as source would do is tell yumdownloader which repos to
enable if someone passed --source to it.
> I personally don't think its worth trying to turn the srpm parsing
> off. Once I enable srpm repos, I benefit more by having the srpm
> information cached locally in a state that matches the rpm
> information. What I'm more concerned about is seeing the srpm
> information and the binary information come from different mirrors
> which are out of sync with each other.
you're really not understanding what I'm talking about.
-sv
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