[Rpm-metadata] createrepo: huge memory consumption?

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Ryan Lynch wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:54, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>  
>       On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Ryan Lynch wrote:
>             BTW: I have a couple of patches, now, that I wrote while trying to
>             log, parse, and handle 'cobbler reposync' with large numbers
>             directories. One affects output formatting, to make logging and
>             parsing easier, and the other helps to handle an annoying error:
>
>             Any interest in either of these functions?
> 
> 
> possibly, but send them over on yum-devel list - since they aren't related to createrepo.
> 
> 
>  I wasn't too clear, there, or maybe I'm misunderstanding how the codebase is structured.  These are patches against
> createrepo, itself, not reposync.  (That's a whle 'nother Oprah--I have some local tweaks to that stuff, too.)
> 
> My changes affect these two files:
> 
>  * /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py
>  * /usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py
> 
> The way these are packaged under F10/F11, they're part of the 'createrepo' package.  I assumed the distinction held,
> upstream.  Am I wrong about that?
>

if they are to createrepo then send the patches and we'll have a look.

wrt to the logging output one - you know about createrepo -v, right?

-sv