new metadata format for repositories

[seth vidal]

> I was trying to update a lot of packages through both up2date and 
> through yum. I still am having problems with the noarch rpms. The rpms 
> start to download, then stall up2date or kill yum. Below is a list of 
> the files that I am having problems with downloading.

I'm very confused - what does this have to do with the metadata work?


> automake14-1.4p6-8.noarch.rpm
> automake-1.8.2-1.noarch.rpm
> docbook-style-xsl-1.64.1-5.noarch.rpm
> ghostscript-7.07-17.i386.rpm
> ghostscript-fonts-8.11-1.noarch.rpm
> gnome-icon-theme-1.1.5-1.noarch.rpm
> gnome-vfs2-2.5.5-2.i386.rpm
> gnome-vfs2-devel-2.5.5-2.i386.rpm
> hwdata-0.103-1.noarch.rpm
> repodata
> system-config-language-1.1.5-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-samba-1.2.2-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-users-1.2.8-1.noarch.rpm

setup multiple mirrors in your /etc/yum.conf

[someserver]
name=myserver
baseurl = url://server/bar/path
          url://otherserver/bar/path
          url://stillotherserver/bar/path

etc etc

> 
> 
> The ghostscripts downloaded alright. The noarch stalled. I then tried 
> out the generation script for the standardized repodata on these files. 
> The generation went successful. It generated the below files within the 
> repodata directory.
> 

cool

> 29437 Jan 20 21:08 filelists.xml.gz
> 21249 Jan 20 21:08 other.xml.gz
>   5689 Jan 20 21:08 primary.xml.gz
>    666 Jan 20 21:08 repomd.xml

those sizes seem about right on average.

-sv