[Yum-devel] makecache process

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:03 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:12:22AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > A simple yum-util that would do a cache update from cron every N hours.
> > > Just out of curiosity, would that be more than running 'yum makecache' ?
> > it's _mostly_ makecache - but it needs to be more careful about locking
> > and maybe take into account some other variables on the system.
> 
> Any reason makecache shouldn't *also* be made to be that careful about these
> things?

Well a good question:
why should we have makecache?  Why not just have a simple yum-util that
does that?

At one time makecache had a point - but maybe we've moved beyond it.
What do you think?

-sv