Split & move yum headers deeper into the hierachy?

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:26:21AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > [The original message had a bad To: address, please reply to this one
> > instead.]
> > 
> > Currently (or last time I checked) yum headers were created for all
> > archs in the rawhide toplevel hierarchy.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to create the yum headers per arch and closer to
> > the RPMS directory, so that it is mirrored and usable in partial
> > mirrors, too?

IMHO, yes

> 
>   Hunnestly, yum-arch run so fast, that I think it's simpler to simply
> rerun it on your mirror than mirror the header directories !

lots of mirrors, including the one I run, can't / won't ever run yum-arch.  
linux, python, rpm, and xml goop are not ubiquitious, and they're NOT going
on my Solaris ftp servers.

later,
chris