[Yum-devel] yum on an olpc machine (slooooooooooow)

[Jay Soffian]

On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:41 AM, seth vidal wrote:

> That's a time that cripples usability.

Sanity check.

We're talking about

- extracting the headers from RPMs
- converting those to XML
- converting the XML back to binary (in the form of sqlite db)
- transferring the binary db to the end system
- so that yum can:
- use the binary db
- to download binary headers (since the extracting information is not  
sufficient on its own)
- to use RPM to solve a transaction

Um, wouldn't it be a lot more sane to generate an rpmdb in the first  
place (/usr/lib/rpmdb/...), transfer that to the end-system, and use  
rpm's built-in dep solver?

I'm just saying...

</devil's advocate>

j.