Back Again - RPM using a more efficient database format

[Jim Cornette]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:03 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> With a large repository, like Fedora, even a compressed XML file is
>> going to end up being rather huge. Then, you have to uncompress it and
>> parse it. And, XML parsing is also not exactly a light task. 
> 
> I thought there was supposed to be a move towards using a proper
> database scheme, a long time ago, that would have sped up all of that?
> 

I recall something discussed awhile back regarding implementing a more 
efficient database scheme. Current discussions on development seem to be 
concentrating on removing features like rpm -ivh url and instead 
requiring the use of wget to download the rpm and secondarily installing 
the rpm from local directory. No mention regarding changing to the more 
efficient database format.

Jim

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