On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 02:20 +1000, Phil Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any reason why the yum header files (.hdr) are about the same > size as the RPM files? > > e.g. > [pza@hallucination development]$ ll headers/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.hdr > packages/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.rpm > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11108767 Oct 9 03:27 > headers/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.hdr > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11109047 Oct 9 03:27 > packages/thunderbird-0.8.0-4.i386.rpm > [pza@hallucination development]$ du -s * > 412296 headers > 412320 packages > 940 primary.xml.gz > 6844 primary.xml.gz.0de5a02528ed14facfc0eaf9c7060209.pickle > 8 repomd.xml > > I thought the idea of the header files was to get all the important info > from without downloading the whole rpm? What mirror are you using? If you're not using a site that supports http 1.1 and byte-ranges then yum will have to download the whole package. -sv
