F7 Plan (draft)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:00 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> > It wouldn't be removing the other format. Just adding this format as a
> > step on the way. Also yum would be able to handle both .xml files and
> > the .db files - it would just be much faster hitting the db files.
> > 
> > Otherwise I'm not sure what else we can do to make the metadata
> > importing much faster.
> 
> (getting wildly off topic)
> 
> So, how about moving the process from the user's view (yum/pirut)
> to behind the scene (updatesd) - what if we rearchitect things so
> that updatesd does all the heavy lifting, and pirut/yum just
> call into that?

won't help. You still have the sleep time while updatesd does what it
does.

Remember the olpc boxes.

it took 5-6 minutes to do that - and updatesd works for crap on systems
not connected to the network all the time.

-sv