[Yum] yum daily 2.0.X branch - "I broke my promise"

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:34, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> OK, tested it out by doing a few updates and everything seems to work
> (so far).
> 
> The hdlist is great - makes me very excited for the new metadata format
> (well, I was excited already, but now I'm more excited).
> 
> On my machine downloading from a local repository (100 Mb/sec), running
> yum update for the first time took about 40 seconds to download all the
> headers when using the local hdlist.  I then hit ctrl-c before it
> updated anything, deleted all the headers and ran yum update again, this
> time without using the local hdlist.  The time it took to download the
> headers went up to 140 seconds.  This is quite an improvment - and I
> imagine it would be even more dramatic over a slower network connection.
> 
> By the way, in the above runs yum was only looking at two repos:
> base-fedora and fedora updates.

cool. Glad to hear it.

-sv