Hi all, Yum 2.1.6 is available. This is not feature complete for the 2.1 series - NOTE 2.1.X is a devel series of functional releases. When it is feature complete for release it WILL become 2.2.ball: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6.tar.gz src.rpm: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6-1.src.rpm noarch.rpm - built on fedora core 2(ish): http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.1/yum-2.1.6-1.noarch.rpm Changes: - integrated icon's mdcache repository metadata import code. It imports the metadata from xml, makes a python pickle file of the data from the file. So the next time you go to read in the repository metadata, if it is unchanged (or you're running in cache-only mode) then it will just read it from the pickle, not the xml. The beauty of this is that reading the data from the pickle is typically an order of magnitude faster than reading it from the xml file. Thanks Icon! - cleaned up yum list output a bit - added 'showdupesfromrepos' option to global config - this boolean setting (defaulting to off), if enabled means that all packages of any version in a repository will be shown (even older versions than what you have installed). If it is off, then it only shows the newest packages from any repository. Let me know what I broke. -sv
