31 May
2006
31 May
'06
05:59
On 31 May 2006 at 0:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
This is mandated by the switch to repomd. repomd's design doesn't allow downloading only a subset of metadata because all metadata are stored in a single XML file. (It's actually not a single XML file, but the effect is the same as if it were.)
Whatever the reason, it SUCKS. (And it's not nice without a progress indicator.) This is half a show stopper. I doubt any of my $RELATIVES on dialup are going to download >10MB every few days just to find out that a package they haven't installed was updated.
Hi, where's the repodata DTD BTW? [...] Regards, Ulrich