On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:15:40 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> Everyone knows I am on dial-up right? Well, istarted that program and was then
> going to bed. I tell ya I almost had a heartattack when I saw the download
> speed at 8.3KB/s. It only lasted for like 5 seconds and then went to its
> nomat5-6 KB/s but I was on the verge of an arrest for that time.
The first bit of each RPM tends to be very compressible. Most likely it's
info about the RPM before the compressed cpio file.
Severn is including yum.
-Paul