The updates firehose

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 19:41 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> [big metadata]
> 
> On So Juni 10 2007, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > which metadata? Can you list the files?
> 
> With Fedora 6 I have similiar results:
> 
> $ LANG=C du -hcs /var/cache/yum/{extras,core,updates}/*xml*
> 4.5M    /var/cache/yum/extras/filelists.xml.gz
> 23M     /var/cache/yum/extras/filelists.xml.gz.sqlite
> 1.6M    /var/cache/yum/extras/primary.xml.gz
> 13M     /var/cache/yum/extras/primary.xml.gz.sqlite
> 8.0K    /var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml
> 2.5M    /var/cache/yum/core/filelists.xml.gz
> 12M     /var/cache/yum/core/filelists.xml.gz.sqlite
> 836K    /var/cache/yum/core/primary.xml.gz
> 4.6M    /var/cache/yum/core/primary.xml.gz.sqlite
> 8.0K    /var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml
> 2.8M    /var/cache/yum/updates/filelists.xml.gz
> 16M     /var/cache/yum/updates/filelists.xml.gz.sqlite
> 476K    /var/cache/yum/updates/primary.xml.gz
> 3.5M    /var/cache/yum/updates/primary.xml.gz.sqlite
> 8.0K    /var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml
> 83M     total
> 

some of these are downloaded, some are generated.

the xml.gz files are used to make the xml.gz.sqlite files. So you
downloaded .gz files only.

in fedora 7 you should only have *.sqlite files - no .gz files at all.

-sv