[Yum-devel] New depsolver?

Brian Long brilong at cisco.com
Mon Feb 19 18:37:54 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:18 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Maybe I missed the thread, but why is there ongoing work with a new 
>> depsolver?  From an enterprise user's perspective, the existing 
>> depsolver in yum 2.4.x has been great.  What does the new depsolver 
>> provide that the older one didn't?

> potentially: speed
> 
> definitely: not needing to download the .hdr files.

Alright, I read the thread about placing the header information inside 
a pre-populated sqlite db.  I didn't realize it would require a re-write 
of the depsolver.

Thanks.

/Brian/



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