[Yum] Faster downloads of headers

[Ian Burrell]

seth vidal wrote:
>>1. Use HTTP pipelining.  HTTP 1.1 allows sending multiple requests 
>>before reading the responses.  I don't know if the Python httplib 
>>supports pipelining.
> 
> 
> keepalive is already implemented in urlgrabber.
> 

Pipelining is different than keepalive.  Pipelining involves sending 
multiple requests before reading the response.  It works over persistent 
connections.  Instead of request-response-request-response, it is 
request-request-response-response.

>>2. Put the headers in an archive.  The initial fetch of a repository 
>>would download the archive if present and unpack it.  Later updates 
>>would fetch the individual headers.
> 
> the headers are going away in the next major version or so, so this is
> sorta moot point.
> 

What are they going to be replaced with?  A single description file?

  - Ian

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