[Yum-devel] [PATCH 4/4] populateSack(): parallel metadata downloading

Zdenek Pavlas zpavlas at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 14:33:52 UTC 2012


>> Subject: Re: [Yum-devel] [PATCH 4/4] populateSack(): parallel metadata downloading

> How is this different from retrievAllMD()?

retrievAllMD() updates metadata of all repos based on mdpolicy,
but additional metadata are downloaded in populateSack(), in a
different code path.  This makes such downloads (eg filelists) 
in parallel.


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