On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > > Server: Fedora 1 - Base > > Server: Fedora 1 - Stable > > Server: Fedora 1 - Testing > > Server: Fedora 1 - Unstable > > Server: Fedora 1 - Updates > > Server: Fedora 1 - Updates testing > > Server: Freshrpms 1 - Freshrpms > > Server: Freshrpms 1 - Testing Updates > > Server: Freshrpms 1 - Updates > > Server: Livna 1 - updates > > Finding updated packages > > Downloading needed headers > > ... lots of installed packages listed here ... > > > > in all fairness, based on how quickly it runs, it seems that the command > > isn't really consulting the repos, but still, it's confusing to get the > > impression that it is. is there a reason for this? > > It's parsing the Cached files. And checking the cached headers. Just b/c > they are on the local disk doesn't mean their not corrupt. So yum has to > check the files and the headers. In caching mode if it finds a corrupt > header it deletes the header(if it can) and removes the file from the > available database. ah, gotcha. thanks. rday
