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

[Ahm ed]

If we were going to get rid of the xml format altogether I would
recommend:
1. using the sqlitedb's as an optimization and non-api-breaking test in
3.0.X or so

2. figure out what improvements we could make to the db format to make
searching faster or to make it smaller on disk. This would mean working
out the right indexes, etc.

3. See if we could figure out a nice or simple way of providing an
sql-diff or even a binary-diff for updates to the metadata.

The thing I like about having the xml around though is that it is human
readable in a pinch. The sqlite is not.

-sv


perhaps we could make it so that we generate the metadata in xml and
in the "new" format whatever that maybe. We can then have yum use the
new forman and humans can read the xml.
~Ahmed