On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:45:34PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: > 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. But if the decision of what to install can be made with only the metadata, then why use headers? Just install the full rpms... PS: I've missed the last developments of yum, but I thought the point of metadata was to avoid the headers? Regards, Luciano Rocha