Re: FYI - no rawhide today (yet)

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar redhat com) said: 
> > > Just curious, which part of the pust takes so much time? I'd expect
> > > that creating new repodata, verifying dependencies, conflicts, upgrade
> > > path, and uploading the result would be matter of minutes at worst.
> > 
> > 66 calls to createrepo across nfs, where each repo has many thousand rpm
> > files to read.  Work is ongoing to optimize this somewhat, but there is
> > just a huge amount of data to process.
> 
> Is that with the --update option? The manpage says it will read only
> the new packages.

Until very very recently (in fact, the source of the problem today)
there was no code to pull any repodata from previous rawhide runs
to --update from.

Bill