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

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:42 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > >  If it's not, then keeping multiple diffs is
> > > always possible, although I think we all agree that the concept gets
> > > ugly fast and that should be avoided unless it provides a substantial
> > > benefit.
> > 
> > Seems like the order of operations would be:
> > 1. figure out if we have any rough consensus on doing this at all.
> > 2. write the code to add the sqlite dbs on the repo side
> > 3. write the code to grab the sqlite dbs on the yum side
> > 4. figure out where to go from there.
> > 
> > We could make steps 1-3 happen for 3.0.X w/o breaking the api
> 
> Yeah, but why destabilize 3.0.x with it?  Let's get it working on HEAD,
> see what the benefits are and then figure out if it's worth moving back
> to the old branch.  That's my $0.02 anyway.

fair enough. I was mostly thinking about it for the value of a backport
for optimization for things like rhel5/centos5.

but doing it in head probably makes more sense.

-sv