On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:40:04AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 10:13, Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:28:48AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > 1. the downloading headers only downloads the header.info file. > > > 2. I was on dsl at home > > > 3. the header.info file is probably 300K tops. All of 7.3 is 100K > > > > That's right... I forgot that you only got the .info file. It might > > still be nice when you do multiple queries, though. > > right - which is why -C is in there now. Yes. I understand. I was simply saying "hmm... had hoped for more than 3 seconds, but I guess that's still useful in some situations." > but a couple of clarifications - it does not mean that there will be no > connections - only that it won't try to get a new header.info file. > > if it needs a header and/or rpm its going to connect to go get it - so > its not an offline mode at all. I think that's the right way to go. > I'll make a daily snapshot with the obsoletes only being considered in > the case of a yum upgrade so people can play with it. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
