[Rpm-metadata] [Yum-devel] Implementing delta metadata

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 03:33 +0530, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I frequently face this problem with yum where i need to install a
> package, and it starts updating all the repo data at once. Since I am
> mostly behind a slow internet connection, this is all the more
> frustrating. I read up http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumFuture , and it
> says here that there are plans to serve metadata delta to reduce the
> download. Also, the large databases can be intelligently broken up
> into smaller pieces (easier to download), so that when i try to
> install a package starting with 'a', only the repodata for all the
> packages starting with 'a' gets downloaded and synced [this was a
> crude example, but conveys the idea].

 Right, the main page for the new repodata ideas was/is:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/dev/NewRepoDataIdeas

...there was also some discussion on this list (6+ months ago). You
probably want to come by IRC and speak to people there.