On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 12:43 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > On Die, 2004-10-19 at 19:15 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:49 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > > > yum-2.1.9 now downloads headers for packages to be updated before asking > > > if it is ok to proceed. Is this really necessary? > > > > Yes, B/c otherwise we cannot resolve dependencies. > > I thought dependency resolution was done using repodata. Yes and no. Headers are downloaded in order to pack a transaction for ts.check(), currently rpm-python offers no way to generate headers, so the real thing is needed. I think everyone should be able to see[0] the performance gain to using the repo metadata in yum 2.1.x Paul [0] Except on certain low memory machines where performance is probably equivalent to yum 2.0.x