On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:51 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Nigel Metheringham wrote : > > I guess the request I was going to put in, that the headers and repo > > metadata also be added to the DVDs so they could be used in place of the > > exploded distribution on mirrors (ie loopback mount the DVDs and so save > > another 5GB of disk) ain't going to be possible... > > Metadata should be small enough for this : The current (compressed) common > XML metadata for the set of i386 development packages takes up a mere 1MB > ;-) > Maybe it's even already included, but if not, you may want to poke someone > and/or file an RFE, as it does seem like a good idea to me. I am a little confused as to what data yum does need - the current version in rawhide (yum-2.1.3-1) appears to pull header data under some circumstances - and the test2 exploded version has both repodata and headers (although the headers appear to have been added later). In any case its now an RFE - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134052 Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
