Re: yum and local cache

[Alin Osan <al casa org ro>]

On Sat September 11 2004 00:15, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> yum install barapp foolib

What version of yum do you have? With yum-2.1.3-1 you don't get any 
headers, just repomd.xml and primary.xml.gz. And the error was reported 
doing an update of the rawhide (development) version from an official 
Fedora development mirror.

> to recap.....
> if yum errors out due to a conflict NO PACKAGES WERE DOWNLOADED.
> yum downloads headers from the packages during depresolution.
> Packages are only downloaded if depresolution clears successfully.
> you are NOT seeing redownloading of anything.
> The cache IS working, the header files in the cache ARE being reused.

No, it's not. The test is irrelevant, as, I believe, it was not done 
with the version of yum that caused the problems.
It definitely downloads the rpm packages again if you have an error 
(conflict) like I had, I checked this on two separat machines, I even 
checked with tcpdump to see the real volume of traffic, it took me 
almoust 2 hours to download all the updated packages, it stoped with 
the error that I have described before, manually fixed the conflict and 
then it took me another 2 hours to download all the packages again. I 
don't know why is so hard to believe it. Do I need to add my system 
engineer signature? ;-)

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Alin Osan