New repository metadata format

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:11 AM -0700 Jesse Keating 
<jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:

> I can generate the data, however I was told that the latest official FC2
> yum did not support the newer metadata.  Did you hand update your yum?

Yep, I installed the newer yum to get the more efficient metadata 
representation. (The tricky part was that one has to hand-update any 
customized yum.conf to include the new /etc/yum.d files, as yum.conf is 
marked noreplace. But this might have been addressed in more recent 
packages by a post scriptlet.)

Eventually FC3 will move to Legacy and will need this, so effort to set up 
the mechanism wouldn't be wasted.