--=-MzVPPjpuKdXPSQBq60pj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > They do not seem to be gzipped here. I can do a "strings" command on > them and they sure look like plain old ascii to me. >=20 > A heavily edited version of a "strings" is included here. are you creating the repository with yum-arch -z dirname ? If not then they won't be compressed, the default is uncompressed (though I might switch that) > Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory >=20 > > How big are yours getting? mine are staying at about 8M for all of rhl > > 7.3 + some internal pkgs. >=20 > Also it seems a bit bigger here. It is for 7.1 and it includes a few > Fermi added rpms but I do not think it should be that different. >=20 > [root@snappy 711]# pwd > /var/cache/yum/711 > [root@snappy 711]# du -sk > 20260 . >=20 After you check on the headers on the repository run this: yum clean headers that should get rid of all of your headers, then do a yum list and it will download the new shiny compressed headers and you can check the size then. or better yet just run yum-arch -z on the repository and then run du -hs on the headers dir. that should give you a smaller number (I hope :) -sv --=-MzVPPjpuKdXPSQBq60pj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9Stsw1Aj3x2mIbMcRAogjAJ9Q2Q/XUtq57FZs2e3vW+0R1FBEPQCdFKoU P9ADri2ONuLIvoMd530RyT8= =rtRU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MzVPPjpuKdXPSQBq60pj--