[Yum] yum 2.1.6

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Oct 7 03:04:26 UTC 2004


Hi all,
 Yum 2.1.6 is available. This is not feature complete for the 2.1 series
- NOTE 2.1.X is a devel series of functional releases. When it is
feature complete for release it WILL become 2.2.ball:
 http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6.tar.gz

src.rpm:
 http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6-1.src.rpm

noarch.rpm - built on fedora core 2(ish):
  http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6-1.noarch.rpm

Changes:
  - integrated icon's mdcache repository metadata import code. It
imports the metadata from xml, makes a python pickle file of the data
from the file. So the next time you go to read in the repository
metadata, if it is unchanged (or you're running in cache-only mode) then
it will just read it from the pickle, not the xml. The beauty of this is
that reading the data from the pickle is typically an order of magnitude
faster than reading it from the xml file. Thanks Icon!
  - cleaned up yum list output a bit
  - added 'showdupesfromrepos' option to global config - this boolean
setting (defaulting to off), if enabled means that all packages of any
version in a repository will be shown (even older versions than what you
have installed). If it is off, then it only shows the newest packages
from any repository.
  

Let me know what I broke.
-sv





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