Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

[Kevin Kofler]

(Starting a new thread because this hardly has anything to do with the 
original infamous thread.
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Michael Schwendt wrote:
> So what? That's not twice as much as FE6, which would not have taken
> several hours to push into such a repo. Not even when running repoclosure
> on the needsign repo prior to pushing and when updating repoview pages
> afterwards. Simply because the code that was used worked very differently
> than "mash".

Yeah, basically "mash" is a really brute force solution, I think directly 
writing out only the new updates as the first prototypes of Bodhi did and as 
the Extras scripts also did/do is a much smarter solution. Always 
recomputing everything sucks.

It was claimed that recomputing is necessary for some obscure multilib 
corner cases. Let me suggest a radical solution for that: drop multilib 
repos! If users really want 32-bit packages, they should enable the 32-bit 
repo. Yes, this will cause file conflicts if you configure yum to always 
drag in both versions by default (exactarch=0). So don't do that. Maybe even 
remove that "feature" from yum altogether. Yum already knows how to fetch 
those 32-bit libs that are actually needed.

        Kevin Kofler