yum 3.1.4 and repository medata handling
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Mar 11 23:07:15 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 04:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 04:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> The latest version of yum (3.1.4) in rawhide seems to be behaving rather
> >> inconsistently when it comes to dealing with repository metadata. I am
> >> cleaning the cache and metadata and rerunning different commands like
> >> yum info <package> and yum update to verify.
> >>
> >> On some instances it downloads the compressed sqlite database directly.
> >> In other instances it downloads and parses the compressed xml file.
> >> Sometimes it downloads and parses the compressed xml file and then
> >> proceeds to download the compressed sqlite database too. It seems to be
> >> occurring randomly. Is there any explanation why. I cant see any reason
> >> for yum to redundantly download the exact same metadata is the form of
> >> both xml file and sqlite database.
> >
> > are you using a mirror list? It'll download what it can find based on
> > what mirror list it has.
>
> Yes. I am using the default configuration from a F7 test 2 live CD
> installation + the latest updates. I understand getting xml or sqlite
> based on what is available on the mirror but I dont quite understand why
> it would download both files. It seems logical to just download the
> sqlite database if it is available and skip the xml file completely in
> that instance.
please collect the output from a case where this is happening.
I've not been able to duplicate this claim so I need to see it to find
out how to fix it.
-sv
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