[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Tell rpm to release memory it wont need for the transaction

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 11:57 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Calling ts.clean() releases memory used by dependency checks and
> ordering. Depending on the transaction size, this can be tens of megs.
> And yes its dumb that callers need to bother with such issues...
> ---
>  cli.py |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cli.py b/cli.py
> index 7237f6c..5db39b7 100644
> --- a/cli.py
> +++ b/cli.py
> @@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ class YumBaseCli(yum.YumBase, output.YumOutput):
>          self.populateTs(keepold=0) # populate the ts
>          self.ts.check() #required for ordering
>          self.ts.order() # order
> +        self.ts.clean() # release memory not needed beyond this point
>  
>          # put back our depcheck callback
>          self.dsCallback = dscb


ACK
-sv