On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:07, David Farning wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:07 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > Ya, a timestamp within repomd.xml would help--but isn't that a pretty > > > big file-- hence the user would have to download a pretty big chunk to > > > realize that the mirror they are pointing yo was rolled in Oct of 1962 > > > > > > > no - repomd.xml is tiny. > > > > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/samples/repomd-sample.xml > > there's a sample - that's the whole file. > > > nice! I was thinking filelist.xml. > oh dear god, no. filelist.xml is fecking huge. in order of increasing size the files are: repomd.xml primary.xml[.gz] filelist.xml[.gz] other.xml[.gz] repomd.xml should be < 1K typically -sv
