KDE 3.4, redhat official rpms - what to do with repodata info?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:32 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:23:04 -0800, Michael W. Carney
> <michael.es.carney at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I just downloaded the "redhat official" kde 3.4 rpms for FC3, and I noticed
> > there's a "repodata" directory with the rpms containing the following:
> > ...
> > I realize these are yum-related files; what, if anything, do I need to do
> > with them?
> 
> The repodata directory contains indexing information for all of the RPMs,
> including all the dependency relationships and so forth.  This is used by
> yum as it automates all the RPM installation/updates (the so-called
> "RPM-Hell").
> 
> If you are just going to use the RPM files directly (not via yum), then you
> don't need the repodata directory or it's contents.  But if you want to set
> up your own yum mirror/server, you'll need them.
> 
> (Note that in older releases, such as in FC2, there was also a "headers"
> directory.  The repodata format is more efficient, but both serve the same
> purposes.)

I may be wrong bit I think you may still need the "headers" directory if
you're using up2date rather than yum to handle your updates, because (I
think) up2date still uses the old metadata format.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>