puplet/pup/yum-updatesd... rethinking the mechanism

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 16 21:23:47 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> > Still, why does it need computed again?
> 
> What if something has changed since the last time the daemon ran?  There
> are cases which could end up installing/updating packages which you had
> since done a removal around.  And in any case, as long as the interface
> is doing the updating, you have to have done all the hard stuff around
> finding "what are the updates"

But, if nothing has changed, why would it need to recompute dependencies (which
it currently does...)

Bill




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