[Yum] Get rid of the header download

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:28 -0600, Nathan Straz wrote:
> I started looking at this item on the YumIdeas page.  A yum upgrade from
> FC5 to FC6 pushed me over the edge. :)
> 
> I think the critical piece to get this working is to fill out the RPM
> Python interface.  Currently you cannot create new hdr objects from
> python.  The only factory interfaces I found depend on reading a binary
> blog, which is exactly what we want to avoid.
> 
> I started trying to get "h = rpm.hdr()" working and ran into a big
> problem.  I created a tp_new function for hdr which allowed me to create
> new hdr objects in Python.  Then I allocated the Header structure in
> hdrObject and all hell broke loose.  On my system calling headerNew()
> totally clobbers the hdrObject.
> 

Hi Nathan,
 So far it looks like the patch you've seen needs to go to rpm-devel or
rpm-python-devel instead. Additionally, it'd be best if you discussed
yum development issues on the yum-devel list, cool?

-sv