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[Les Mikesell]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> You do /not/ need that much info in the first step.

My first step is usually a 'yum search'.

> All you need is a 
> just a list of names of packages available on the remote repository. You 
> reconcile that against the list of packages you already have downloaded 
> the metadata for, and you then know what's new.

The annoying parts for me are that after finding the things I want, yum 
repeats the metadata download for every install step and goes out of its 
way to avoid allowing the site proxy cache from supplying it or the rpms.

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   Les Mikesell
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