[Rpm-metadata] [patch] createrepo --update

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:33 -0400, Mike McLean wrote:
> This is a patch that we've been using within Red Hat. If allows for a 
> repo to be quickly updated by first scanning the existing metadata and 
> only rescanning rpms that have been changed or added. This can 
> drastically improve performance (even beyond using --cachedir) when only 
> a small number of rpms have been updated.
> 
> The patch (against current HEAD) is attached, and is also available here:
> http://people.redhat.com/mikem/software/createrepo-update4.patch
> 

I looked at this before and I couldn't figure out why you wrote an
entire other metadata parser just for it? why not just reuse the code
from elsewhere?

-sv