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Re: [opensuse-packaging] rpm-md metadata for online updates
  • From: Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:54:17 +0100
  • Message-id: <440E0109.1060707@xxxxxxxxx>
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Ruediger Oertel wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mauricio Teixeira wrote:
>>> Christoph Thiel wrote:
>>>> #128607 -- it looks quite easy at the first glance, but turns out to be a
>>>> bit more tricky on our side ;)
>>> Care to elaborate on that?
>> Rudi, I guess it's your turn ;)
>
> well, in short: it will take some hours of coding something similar
> to createrepo, but with a far more elaborate caching. createrepo
> is far too slow, roughly 6 minutes for the 10.0 update tree alone
> on a fast machine and still almost 3 minutes with checksum caching
> is far above anything usable.
>
> After all, if a new patch is added, this is just about adding a handfull
> of new rpms and that must never take that long. Some other things are pretty
> annoying with it, mainly not being able to exclude symlinks and probably more.
>
> I hope to get something done within one or two weeks.

Thanks again for taking care of this :)

How about filing those modifications to upstream ?

cheers
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