Greetings ... Been awhile sincd I have had net access and even longer since I have read the yum maillist, so please excuss my question if it's already been asked, thanks. I'm sure some will remember me, I'm in South Africa with little to no bandwidth and always looking at ways to reduce the need of bandwidth. Current problem that yum help with is updating some Fedora Core system after installation and then after. Now, if I have already downloaded big rpm's like the OpenOffice updates, which can be ten's of megabytes big, yum still needs to download the hdr file to know what's in the rpm. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but is the hdr file a small copy of the rpm it's self. I'm sure I saw this awhile ago. If so, and I know something will correct me if I'm wrong, but can't we change yum to check to see if the needed rpm is not in the package folder in the cache before looking to download the hdr file, which in it's self can be big for some packages? ie ... the hdr file for webmin in RPMForge is about 1.4MB big and the rpm 10MB. Would this also help with updates, when only the repomd.xml and primary.xml.* file need to be downloaded for an update if all the rpms need for an update are in place? I did look through the maillist archive, but keep getting distracted by other threads. Also remember seeing TODO and another WiKi explaining that hdr files will be going away, but that would be on the server side if I understand this correctly. Thanks Mailed Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060721/d7d647ad/attachment.html
