yum 2.1 & new metadata

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

With the new metadata format - yum appears to download 3M of metadata
for rawhide - eachtime yum in invoked.

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% yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  development
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 944 kB    00:03     
developmen: ################################################## 3523/3523

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I'm guessing the 3523 referes to 3523 kB - and probably referes to
repodata/filelists.xml.gz (and perhaps other files)

Isn't this a lot more datatansfer than the older format? (for each yum
invocation)

Satish