The updates firehose

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:39 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> Is the information in the xml and sqlite files different? Afaik the sqlite 
> files only increase the speed of yum, so when downloading the sqlite files 
> needs more time than processing the xml files, it is better to skip them.

It's not so much that the data is different as it is the fact that
making an efficient diff of two xml files is easy, but making an
effecient diff of two sqlite files is a bit more difficult.

Jonathan
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