[Yum] Comments and Suggestions

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 28 06:10:12 UTC 2005


> Actually, this isn't exactly the same. Operating in cache-only mode will
> stop yum from fetching header ranges from remote repositories, so it's
> only useful for operations not involving modifications of the local db.
> 
> I think it would be useful to have a feature where repomd is kept for a
> certain time before yum re-fetches it again. It's particularly annoying
> when mirrorlists are used, since a lot of the times the mirrors get out
> of sync. I usually do "yum list updates" before doing "yum update" and
> often the two operations will not be identical due to yum hitting
> different servers.

I think implementing the last-modified check in the repomd.xml grab
might be the lightest-weight way. If we have a way of checking the last
modified timestamp we might be able to use that to make sure yum ignores
out-of-date mirrors. 

thoughts?
-sv





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