Yum and SRPMs

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:39 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 11/28/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > > we need the whole path to the src.rpm and we need some way of
> > > distinguishing the types of repo BEFORE reading in the metadata.
> > 
> > 
> > But I have to wonder...for yumdownloader and repoquery to work
> > efficiently it still helps to pull in metadata about the srpm repos
> > during yum runs.  Out-of-date srpm information isn't particularly
> > useful.
> > 
> > If the magical mirrorlist and metadata caching makes it into the
> > default yum configuration...how expensive does retrieving the srpm
> > metadata become?
> > 
> > At the very least I would certaintly want  yum makecache  to cache all
> > the enabled repos including enabled srpm information.
> 
> 
> Both yumdownlaoder and repoquery can (and do) use a private per-user
> cache when running non-root so the information will be up-to-date,
> regardless of the system yum cache state.

Erm, spoke a bit too soon, yumdownloader hadn't been fixed to use a
private cache yet. It's in cvs head now though :)

	- Panu -