The updates firehose

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 11:54 +0200, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > yum-presto will help a lot more. But maybe there should be also delta-xml 
> > files for the repository metadata, because it takes very long to download 
> > these, too, with a slow connection.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Till
> 
> Right, this is a very serious point. Right now, the meta data in my /var/cache/yum/development amounts to about 65 MB which alone would take 5 hours to download via a standard analog modem connection!


which metadata? Can you list the files?

thanks,
-sv