On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:32 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:23:04 -0800, Michael W. Carney > <michael.es.carney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just downloaded the "redhat official" kde 3.4 rpms for FC3, and I noticed > > there's a "repodata" directory with the rpms containing the following: > > ... > > I realize these are yum-related files; what, if anything, do I need to do > > with them? > > The repodata directory contains indexing information for all of the RPMs, > including all the dependency relationships and so forth. This is used by > yum as it automates all the RPM installation/updates (the so-called > "RPM-Hell"). > > If you are just going to use the RPM files directly (not via yum), then you > don't need the repodata directory or it's contents. But if you want to set > up your own yum mirror/server, you'll need them. > > (Note that in older releases, such as in FC2, there was also a "headers" > directory. The repodata format is more efficient, but both serve the same > purposes.) I may be wrong bit I think you may still need the "headers" directory if you're using up2date rather than yum to handle your updates, because (I think) up2date still uses the old metadata format. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
