Seth, Troy thought the default was to compress. He is trying it now. Thanks -connie sieh On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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 > > > > > How big are yours getting? mine are staying at about 8M for all of rhl > > > 7.3 + some internal pkgs. > > > > 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. > > > > [root@snappy 711]# pwd > > /var/cache/yum/711 > > [root@snappy 711]# du -sk > > 20260 . > > > > 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 > >
