FYI - no rawhide today (yet)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 22:34:42 UTC 2008
Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) said:
> > > Just curious, which part of the pust takes so much time? I'd expect
> > > that creating new repodata, verifying dependencies, conflicts, upgrade
> > > path, and uploading the result would be matter of minutes at worst.
> >
> > 66 calls to createrepo across nfs, where each repo has many thousand rpm
> > files to read. Work is ongoing to optimize this somewhat, but there is
> > just a huge amount of data to process.
>
> Is that with the --update option? The manpage says it will read only
> the new packages.
Until very very recently (in fact, the source of the problem today)
there was no code to pull any repodata from previous rawhide runs
to --update from.
Bill
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