Re: yum 2.1 & new metadata

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:29 -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> With the new metadata format - yum appears to download 3M of metadata
> for rawhide - eachtime yum in invoked.

no.


> ---
> % 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
> 
> ---
> 
> 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)


the #### is just reading in the metadata.

I added some text output to yum 2.1.2 - hitting rawhide tonight,
hopefully, that helps explain that.

==== are downloads
#### are importing/reading.

-sv