[Yum] Header generation (for read-only cache)

[Thomas Springer]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 13:02 +1100 schrieb cdl at dodo.com.au:
> I wish to have a read only yum cache that is accessed by many machines.
> 
> My yum repository is set to file:///var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages.
> 
> I populate the "packages directory using wget in mirror mode. I also get the
> "repodata" subdirectory.
> 
> Now I can use yum directly:
> 
> As intended "yum check-update" gets files such as repomd.xml from
> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages/repodata/ and places them in
> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/.
> 
> A "yum install kernel-2.6.15-xxx.i686" works well and produces a header in
> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/.
> ("file" reports the header type as "data")
> 
> I wish to create all headers so that I can run in cache-only mode on
> NFS-mounted clients. So I use "/usr/share/yum-cli/pullheaders.py". This
> produces the headers in the correct location, but the file type is reported
> differently:
> headers/cups-1-1.1.23-15.4.i386.hdr:       gzip compressed data, was
> ".newheaders/cups-1-1.1.23-15.4.", max compression
> 
> What is my mistake?
> 

Maybe too simple-minded, but did you notice that this is the default
behaviour.

$ yum-arch --help

...
     -z  = gzip compress the headers (default, deprecated as an option)


Thomas
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