Yum .hdr files massive
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Oct 9 17:31:12 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 02:20 +1000, Phil Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any reason why the yum header files (.hdr) are about the same
> size as the RPM files?
>
> e.g.
> [pza at hallucination development]$ ll headers/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.hdr
> packages/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11108767 Oct 9 03:27
> headers/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.hdr
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11109047 Oct 9 03:27
> packages/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.rpm
> [pza at hallucination development]$ du -s *
> 412296 headers
> 412320 packages
> 940 primary.xml.gz
> 6844 primary.xml.gz.0de5a02528ed14facfc0eaf9c7060209.pickle
> 8 repomd.xml
>
> I thought the idea of the header files was to get all the important info
> from without downloading the whole rpm?
What mirror are you using?
If you're not using a site that supports http 1.1 and byte-ranges then
yum will have to download the whole package.
-sv
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