[yum-commits] docs/yum.conf.5

James Antill james at osuosl.org
Wed Aug 29 20:36:40 UTC 2012


 docs/yum.conf.5 |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 59e99ddaf8c95e63e1573aed57fdc94b00f918ad
Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 29 16:36:33 2012 -0400

    Add mddownloadpolicy to yum.conf man page.

diff --git a/docs/yum.conf.5 b/docs/yum.conf.5
index b456074..01facf8 100644
--- a/docs/yum.conf.5
+++ b/docs/yum.conf.5
@@ -541,6 +541,19 @@ not listed above is the other metadata, which contains the changelog information
 which is used by yum-changelog. This is what "yum makecache" uses.
 
 .IP
+\fBmddownloadpolicy \fR
+You can select which kinds of repodata you would prefer yum to download:
+
+`sqlite' - Download the .sqlite files, if available. This is currently slightly
+faster, once they are downloaded. However these files tend to be bigger, and
+thus. take longer to download.
+
+`sqlite' - Download the .XML files, which yum will do anyway as a fallback on
+the other options. These files tend to be smaller, but they require
+parsing/converting locally after download and some aditional checks are
+performed on them each time they are used.
+
+.IP
 \fBmultilib_policy \fR
 Can be set to 'all' or 'best'. All means install all possible arches for any package you 
 want to install. Therefore yum install foo will install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, 


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