yum 2.1 & new metadata

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:47:56PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:29:41 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > developmen: ################################################## 3523/3523
> > 
> > how many packages are in the development tree?
> > including noarch/i386/i686 AND src?
> 
> Yeah - there are quiet a few packags - but I feel its a lot more
> datatransfer per yum invocation compared to the old model where the
> data for the same set of pacakges in rawhide is 180kB. (header.info
> file)
Yet another person confused by the new UI I think :-), we had
a lively discussion about this on #fedora-devel the other day.

The developmen: #### is metadata _parsing_, not downloading.
If the repository metadata is uptodate, only 1k (repomd.xml) gets
transferred, otherwise around 650k (for current rawhide).

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Pekka Pietikainen