gross DNF bandwidth inefficiency if filesystem space limited

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:29:30 +0200
Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is actually not true. 

Well, as I noted in my reply, I wasn't actually sure what was being
proposed here. 

> The repodata should contain just the latest
> version, but if I have slightly older version of metadata already
> downloaded, I would be probably fine with installation of slightly
> older version of package.

So, you are proposing we do things exactly as we are now, but also keep
around all previous copies of the packages in the repos (but not in the
repodata)? 

I'm not sure if that setup would work with dnf. I think it requires
whatever mirror(s) it uses to match the metadata. If you have a older
metadata and the mirror you hit has been updated, I think dnf will say
that the repodata doesn't match and try another. 

kevin

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