On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:34, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > OK, tested it out by doing a few updates and everything seems to work > (so far). > > The hdlist is great - makes me very excited for the new metadata format > (well, I was excited already, but now I'm more excited). > > On my machine downloading from a local repository (100 Mb/sec), running > yum update for the first time took about 40 seconds to download all the > headers when using the local hdlist. I then hit ctrl-c before it > updated anything, deleted all the headers and ran yum update again, this > time without using the local hdlist. The time it took to download the > headers went up to 140 seconds. This is quite an improvment - and I > imagine it would be even more dramatic over a slower network connection. > > By the way, in the above runs yum was only looking at two repos: > base-fedora and fedora updates. cool. Glad to hear it. -sv
