Hi Alessandro,

> I tried to download and install Midgard using yum but I had to give up 
> because 
> it seems to be going to download the whole universe before downloading and 
> installing Midgard. Is it normal that yum has to download a huge set of RPM 
> headers before starting to download and install Midgard? Do I have to pass 
> any special parameter to yum to avoid this effect?
this actually is not a thing that happens because of Midgard but
because of Fedora Core. It downloads the RPM headers for packages
which are not yet installed on your system, skipping those you already
have. The more packages you installed the lesser headers it will
download. It is actually just like running

# apt-get update

on Debian.

You will only need this once, as further yum runs will only download
new headers.

I am not sure if there is any speed up possible, if I remember right,
Fedora Core already employs zlib compressed headers.

Daniel S. Reichenbach
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