[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add a fast mode to pkg.verify(), don't verify the digest if others pass

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, James Antill wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:02 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> I'm inclined toward ACK - just curious - what's the use case?
>
> Well I want to see if I can make "yum verify" more useful, as in: you
> can run it and have it mostly show nothing (instead of the pages of crap
> about .mo timestamp changes it now shows :).
> One slight problem with that goal is that "yum verify" currently takes
> so long as to be pretty useless, even if it's output was "reasonable".
>
>> is there a need for verify to be quicker?
>
> Yeh, running "yum verify" sucks in a big way atm. as it reads all the
> data from every file on disk ... it's not exactly super fast if it just
> checks the inode data for most of the files, but it's a _lot_ faster.
>

then ACKity ACk.
-sv