New repository metadata format

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed May 4 18:53:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:45 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah it's just an extra line in our 'upload' script.  It will add a few
minutes on our end is all.  I'd rather not gen the metadata twice ):

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