On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 03:33 +0530, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: > Hi! > > I frequently face this problem with yum where i need to install a > package, and it starts updating all the repo data at once. Since I am > mostly behind a slow internet connection, this is all the more > frustrating. I read up http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumFuture , and it > says here that there are plans to serve metadata delta to reduce the > download. Also, the large databases can be intelligently broken up > into smaller pieces (easier to download), so that when i try to > install a package starting with 'a', only the repodata for all the > packages starting with 'a' gets downloaded and synced [this was a > crude example, but conveys the idea].
Right, the main page for the new repodata ideas was/is: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/dev/NewRepoDataIdeas ...there was also some discussion on this list (6+ months ago). You probably want to come by IRC and speak to people there. _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
