Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 29 April 2011 17:14, Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So, my question is: what is the utility of those files? I see that >> they get displayed with the "yumdb info" command. Anything else? >> If I were to set the value 0 in all of those >> from_repo_revision/from_repo_timestamp files, meaning that they >> wouldn't change from build-to-build, would there be any obvious side >> effects? > > I searched the yum and yum-utils source code, looks like these are > recorded but not acted upon, so (at least at the moment) should be > safe to live without. I'm going to remove them in OLPC builds and keep > an eye out for breakage. > > If these files are truly optional in the yumdb design, it would be > nice to have a yum.conf option to not install them. Yeh, nothing uses them now ... but I can't speak for any code in the future. If you want to "get rid" of them, then running: yumdb set from_repo_revision olpc-2011-05-02 yumdb set from_repo_revision 1304355547 ...should create a single fine hardlinked to all the packages, which will satisfy all the size problems you have (and will be functional if any code is written to use that data). -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
