Adrian Schröter wrote:

On Montag 08 Dezember 2008 12:37:29 Martin Mohring wrote:

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Michael Schroeder wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:17:30AM +0100, Martin Mohring wrote:

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We use primary.xml for Download on Demand. Do we sit on a dead horse? What else could we use instead for getting the meta data?

You should also support the susetags format, it's pretty easy to parse.

Which files in a SUSE repo file hierachy must we parse *instead* of rpmmd primary.xml?

It is suse/setup/descr/packages.gz .

However, this format might get superceeded by an extended rpm-md with next release (or not, the plan exists for a longer time already, but it did not happen so far) ...

We had tested the flavors of rpmmd with the Download on Demand parser, and tested in practise with Fedora/Red Hat and openSUSE/SUSE Linux variants, to be sure it works. Now I wanted to add openSUSE 11.1 and current Factory, but did not find a primary.xml . Couldn't you call createrepo for us ? Otherwise we have to write a third parser. Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Michael Schroeder wrote:

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Martin Mohring wrote:

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We had tested the flavors of rpmmd with the Download on Demand parser, and tested in practise with Fedora/Red Hat and openSUSE/SUSE Linux variants, to be sure it works. Now I wanted to add openSUSE 11.1 and current Factory, but did not find a primary.xml . Couldn't you call createrepo for us ? Otherwise we have to write a third parser.

No, createrepo kills us. It's much too slow and uses too much memory.

Dumb question: what in the nature of generating a package index requires the memory usage to scale in proportion to the number of packages, instead of being O(1) (constant)? Or is creatrepo's algorithm just, uh, sub-optimal? -Archie -- Archie L. Cobbs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org