yum

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/13/06, Ahm ed <zrchrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Wrote:
> Yum only download the header part of the rpm files from the mirror to
> feed it into rpm api, which does part of the depsolving.
> I dont speed up thing to split out the header data into seperate files,
>  like earlier versions of yum did, the same number of bytes have to
> be download any way. Depsolving is a  complex task an it takes time to
> do, i prefere good depsolving, more than fast depsolving.
>
> Tim
>
> Ah, I see. About the speed. I agree good depsolving IS better than fast
> depsolving. BUT the choice is not necessarily between good and fast. as I
> have stated Arch Linux's pacman pkg management tool and smart-pm (available
> in fedora) as well as debian's tools all process dependencies MUCH faster
> than yum. And they do it with comparable effectiveness to yum. I feel we can
> make this process faster, not necessarily as "fast" but faster then what it
> is. It does not seem to be a problem directly with rpm itself since smart
> does work fairly fast even in fedora. So I am assuming it has to do with
> something yum does. It could be due to python. In that case I recommend we
> move more parts of yum to c. especially the "heavy" processes involved with
> depchecks. What I want is for yum to be as fast as possible, without it's
> quality taking a hit.
>

You may just want to write a module in C to do this.

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