Sugg: Improve for mock (caching)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 01:54 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 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 discovers this cached repomd.xml is out-of-date.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. :)
Switch to a different programming language and I will consider to join.

> 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
Sorry, I am already subscribed to too many mailing lists.

Ralf