Sugg: Improve for mock (caching)

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On 03/11/05, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> IMO, yum should have an "apt-get update" counterpart, which should
> download repomd.xml once and then would continue using the mirror this
> particular repomd.xml had been downloaded from, only, until yum
> discovers this cached repomd.xml is out-of-date.

This has been discussed on the yum list some [1], and a few possible
solutions were given. It's pretty much down to "so, who wants to write
the code?" which is met with the usual silence. :)

Everyone agrees, though, that mirrorlists are broken in their current state.

[1] E.g. https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-October/thread.html#7728

Regards,
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Konstantin Ryabitsev
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Montréal, Québec