Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (92 mails)

[Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx>]

>Hmm, what if a repo just added patches - you have to download
>repomd.xml at least to find out.


huh ? I am missing something ?


Sure,a repo can "suddenly" start providing patches but why it has to
download repomd.xml ?

I see it this way at least for HTTP based repos for **patches** related
  stuff only.

1. if the repo has not changed do nothing, do not refresh nor reload the
cache (after all the repo does not contain patches at all)

2. if the repo has changed, perform a a HEAD request to
foobar/repodata/patches.xml if returns HTTP 200 refresh and go ahead.

3.repo can suddenly stop providing patches as well, so a similar
operation is needed for that case as well.


-- 
Cristian Rodríguez R. SUSE R&D
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to
stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury