[Yum] modified date of header.info

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:07, David Farning wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:07 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> nice! I was thinking filelist.xml.
> 

oh dear god, no.

filelist.xml is fecking huge.

in order of increasing size the files are:
repomd.xml
primary.xml[.gz]
filelist.xml[.gz]
other.xml[.gz]

repomd.xml should be < 1K typically

-sv