RPM needs to go on a diet.

[Jeff Pitman]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:34, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Yes, these are large packages that are being removed.  No, even with
> all that, taking six minutes, a dual Opteron box, with SCSI RAID, is
> unreasonable.

Check strace, %preun, %post, %postun, and other related trigger 
operations and post your results where the bottlenecks are.  Could be 
rpm, could be db, could be scriptlets .. who knows.

Maybe use the bootchart except retune it to read strace/ltrace output 
and produce analysis. valgrind and others work too.

have fun,
-- 
-jeff