Hi! I frequently face this problem with yum where i need to install a package, and it starts updating all the repo data at once. Since I am mostly behind a slow internet connection, this is all the more frustrating. I read up http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumFuture , and it says here that there are plans to serve metadata delta to reduce the download. Also, the large databases can be intelligently broken up into smaller pieces (easier to download), so that when i try to install a package starting with 'a', only the repodata for all the packages starting with 'a' gets downloaded and synced [this was a crude example, but conveys the idea].
I am willing to work on both of these features. I have read the source code of createrepo and yum roughly, and am confident I'll be able to make this happen. I'd be glad if someone with ample experience in the codebase steps forward to guide me. Also, comments / feedback is invited. Please reply. -- Regards Tirtha Chatterjee http://wyuka.co.cc/ _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
