[Yum] Faster downloads of headers

nathan r. hruby nhruby at uga.edu
Sun Nov 23 13:48:16 UTC 2003


On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> > What are they going to be replaced with?  A single description file?
> 
> Read back in the archives. There is work being done to make a
> common-repository format for
> yum/apt/redcarpet/up2date/[redhat|system]-config-packages/and others to
> use.
> 

Wearing the mirror maintainer hat, will that next version of yum / 
yum-arch have a "--unbreak-old-clients" switch so that yum can support 
both old and new for a while, or will the changes be drastic and 
non-overlapping enough that I can run an old version on top the new?

-n
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