On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 11/28/05, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > we need the whole path to the src.rpm and we need some way of > > distinguishing the types of repo BEFORE reading in the metadata. > > > But I have to wonder...for yumdownloader and repoquery to work > efficiently it still helps to pull in metadata about the srpm repos > during yum runs. Out-of-date srpm information isn't particularly > useful. > > If the magical mirrorlist and metadata caching makes it into the > default yum configuration...how expensive does retrieving the srpm > metadata become? > > At the very least I would certaintly want yum makecache to cache all > the enabled repos including enabled srpm information. Both yumdownlaoder and repoquery can (and do) use a private per-user cache when running non-root so the information will be up-to-date, regardless of the system yum cache state. - Panu - -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
