[Yum-devel] how long to hold on to a mirrorlist

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:58 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:26 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > > why add all that code when we can just  check the timestamp on the file
> > > we saved and compare it? How much benefit to the user are we enabling by
> > > implementing all of the above? More options != more benefit.
> > 
> > You might want to add a check if one of the config
> > files is more recent than the mirrorlist, so that
> > people less often have todo a "yum cache clean".
> > 
> 
> So I can make it so that if the mirrorlist is older than the config file
> or older than any of the repo files. But I can't, however make them
> correlate one to one. The repo files aren't parsed that way and the
> repos can actually come out of nowhere  (ie: rhn-plugin).
> 

the above is what I implemented.

-sv