Re: Dependency checking algorithm

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:57 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 11:14 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> >> I am looking at the horribly slow installation when packages are 
> >> specified explicitly (look for an old e-mail from Jeffrey Law: 
> >> Interesting anaconda/yum performance issue).
> > 
> > Jeff then put together a patch for yum based on where I pointed him that
> > should have gotten this back to where it "should" be.  And that's been
> > in for a while.
> 
> Where can I find/test that patch? Any relevant BZ?
> Which version of anaconda/yum?

yum patch only and it was in the thread you referenced :)  And should
have gone in around the same time, whatever version of yum that makes
things

> I am not quite sure what are the differences but it seems strange.
> Why do we have 2 different function/code paths that essentially do the 
> same thing, install requested packages?

Old API vs new API.  But removing the old would break old callers, which
we don't really like doing.

Jeremy