[Yum] modified date of header.info

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Feb 26 13:07:06 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 07:04 -0600, David Farning wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 01:13 -0500, seth vidal wrote:  
> > I think the reposed.xml file will help this somewhat b/c it will include
> > an internal datestamp of the files inside of it and it's really quite
> > small, so transferring it shouldn't put much load on things.
> > 
> > Essentially we need to have a way of making sure mirrors get the
> > repodata dir LAST to the other actual packages.
> The only true fix is to make yum rugged enough realize that it is
> working with an out of date mirror.
> 
> Ya, a timestamp within repomd.xml would help--but isn't that a pretty
> big file-- hence the user would have to download a pretty big chunk to
> realize that the mirror they are pointing yo was  rolled in Oct of 1962
> 

no - repomd.xml is tiny. 

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/samples/repomd-sample.xml
there's a sample - that's the whole file.


-sv





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