On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:38:10 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote: > Actually, it's quite a few megabytes of metadata to download because > someone changes something (in this case, a perfectly correct > description, FC6 is still Core+Extras), Often, it's N times a few megabytes of metadata to download, because mirrors are out-of-sync and offer files that don't pass the checksum check, and Yum proceeds through the mirror-list until it succeeds or fails finally. On top of that the wasted time when this blocks access to the repositories for a normal pirut/yum install. And to Christopher, yes, you're right, it is worse for larger packages to release updates for ridiculous changes like this one. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
