Question about yum metadata transfer

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*Megh Parikh <meghprkh at gmail.com>*/ wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:44:10 
+0530:
> Hello,
>
> I donot no much about the internals of yum but is repository metadata 
> downloaded in whole everytime it gets autoupdated?
>
> Especially the updates and the Fedora repos take a long time to 
> download and use about 30 MB of download.
>
> If not can it not be supplied as patches to existing xml data. (There 
> are several xml diff utilities)
>
> (I donot know if this should have been posted in the yum list instead 
> of yum-devel. If so pls redirect me)
>
> Regards,
> Megh Parikh
>
Hi,
Yes it does. And, if SQLite metadata is available, it uses that instead 
of XML metadata.

Regards,
Hedayat
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