On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 11/28/05, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> we need the whole path to the src.rpm and we need some way of
> distinguishing the types of repo BEFORE reading in the metadata.
But I have to wonder...for yumdownloader and repoquery to work
efficiently it still helps to pull in metadata about the srpm repos
during yum runs. Out-of-date srpm information isn't particularly
useful.
If the magical mirrorlist and metadata caching makes it into the
default yum configuration...how expensive does retrieving the srpm
metadata become?
At the very least I would certaintly want yum makecache to cache all
the enabled repos including enabled srpm information.
Both yumdownlaoder and repoquery can (and do) use a private per-user
cache when running non-root so the information will be up-to-date,
regardless of the system yum cache state.
- Panu -