Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:16, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> > Yum has also gotten a lot faster, with repodata.  So FC3 yum will be
> > blazingly fast (my  tests show  around 4x  speed  improvement on the
> > same machine)
> 
> This is one of  my  major beefs with yum   - I hate watching  my  disk
> thrash as it digs through  all the headers.  And  on my 128MB StinkPad
> it's a lost cause ;)

That's RPM thrashing the ThinkPad - 128MB of RAM, if you have more than
say 2-3 kernels in /boot, it's gonna thrash nicely during a kernel
update

> What's  this  repodata of which  you  speak -  is  yum  going  to stop
> thrashing my disks finally?

I wish there was more documentation, but there isn't at the moment! Its
just a lot of code... But yes, it should speed things up when FC3 is
out, up2date is already ready to work with it

Works mainly by extracting the metadata out of the packages and keeping
them in a few files. All XML, and gzip'ed mostly too. Its a lot smaller
than the .hdr files thats currently being used, and is a definite move
forward

When this is more "ready" and more mainline, definitely more docs will
be created; but that's low priority now
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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