[Yum-devel] Re: [yum-cvs] yum/yum depsolve.py, 1.115, 1.116 packages.py, 1.90, 1.91

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 20:22 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > not sure I agree that it is 'being smarter' but sure, we can do that.
> 
> I don't care which one is used, but I hope that we can start moving
> towards not sticking the header byte range stuff in primary, and never
> downloading just the headers.

Not including the header byte ranges breaks the format, so we probably
have to leave it there[1] but that doesn't mean that yum has to care
about them or ever download them

Jeremy

[1] Remember, the goal was that the metadata would be able to be used by
multiple implementations