yum 2.1 & new metadata

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:47:56PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:29:41 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > > developmen: ################################################## 3523/3523
> > > 
> > > how many packages are in the development tree?
> > > including noarch/i386/i686 AND src?
> > 
> > Yeah - there are quiet a few packags - but I feel its a lot more
> > datatransfer per yum invocation compared to the old model where the
> > data for the same set of pacakges in rawhide is 180kB. (header.info
> > file)
> Yet another person confused by the new UI I think :-), we had
> a lively discussion about this on #fedora-devel the other day.
> 
> The developmen: #### is metadata _parsing_, not downloading.
> If the repository metadata is uptodate, only 1k (repomd.xml) gets
> transferred, otherwise around 650k (for current rawhide).

Got it now :). 3523 is the number of packages-entires processed
locally.. Recieved another about this from jeff.

Thanks for the clarifications.

Satish