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

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 17:23 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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...)

how do we know if nothing has changed? Are we going to take a checksum
of the rpmdb?

-sv