[Rpm-metadata] createrepo 0.3.2

Jeff Sheltren sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Mon Apr 19 14:54:38 UTC 2004


By 'pretty printed' do you mean the tabs/spaces in the .xml file to make
it a bit more human readable?  And the speedup when using the 'ugly'
file format: is that the import times when yum is reading the file, or
the time it takes to create the file initially?

Thanks for the clarification.

-Jeff

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 11:11, seth vidal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  long time no talk. I've been working on making yum work with the
> metadata format and while doing this I discovered that the import times
> of the primary.xml.gz leave a lot to be desired when pretty printing is
> enabled. You can get a 20-30% speed benefit by disabling the pretty
> printing. With that in mind I disabled the pretty printing by default in
> the createrepo script - I made a --pretty or a -p option if anyone wants
> to make their metadata pretty printed but in most cases I'm betting they
> won't want it.
> 
> Anyway - if anyone objects let me know - but I didn't expect this to be
> much of a point of conflict.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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