Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (92 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 24, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

> 
> >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 ?

Because it is signed and contains the checksums of other metadata files.

If a refreshed patches.xml does not match the checksum listed in 
repomd.xml (or is not listed at all), it has to be ignored.

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    Michael Andres

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