Re: Back Again

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Precisely. You need to download and cache the remote repository 
> information already. So you already have this information.
>
> Recall that, right now, yum already looks at Obsoletes: headers of 
> packages to find out what other packages you need to upgrade, so yum 
> already needs to download every package's metadata, not just the latest 
> versions'.

If you think you have some good ideas on improving yum or rpm subscribe 
to yum-devel or rpm-maint list and send the feedback there. Here it just 
ends up being lost as noise in the list.

Rahul