[Yum] New yum and q few questions ...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:47 +0200, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> Greetings ...
> 
> 	I'm sure theses questions have been answer and I have to admit that I 
> have not search around for these details, but while I had an example on 
> my screen, I thought I would ask these questions ...
> 
> I did ...
> 
> [leet at clee-taylor-64 ~]$ sudo yum -y install qemu
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up Repos
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> updates-re: ################################################## 737/737
> dag       : ################################################## 2796/2796
> base      : ################################################## 2852/2852
> freshrpms : ################################################## 464/464
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package qemu.i386 0:0.6.1-1.1.fc3.rf set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> Transaction Listing:
>    Install: qemu.i386 0:0.6.1-1.1.fc3.rf - dag
> Total download size: 2.3 M
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): qemu-0.6.1-1.1.fc3 100% |=========================| 731 kB    03:57
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Installing: qemu 100 % done 1/1
> 
> Installed: qemu.i386 0:0.6.1-1.1.fc3.rf
> Complete!
> 
> 	My question is, if yum thinks that my download size is 2.3M, why did I 
> only do 731kB download?
> 

it's an artifact of how regets works.

the 731KB is what it had left to download.

-sv