Re: VERSION 1.0.2 Released...

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:16:30PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Okay the --update provides db is taking forever...even if a "starter"
> provides db to go along with a serverlist is 45 megs...its got to be
> less time consuming to downloading a starter provides db for the
> redhat7.3 main-os ftp tree..than it is to do the header look ups for the
> 1300 rpm's client side on the first time you do grap --update.  Can the
> provides db be compressed down with bzip or something.  the incremental
> updates should go pretty quickly...but i think having a way to merge in
> precompiled provides db for something like a redhat 7.3 mainos mirror
> miht really make things go faster...for the first --update 

Hrmm... It only takes 20 minutes on my 768kb connection. I thought of using
a compression utility, and with gzip it compresses 73%,a nd bzip2 is 85% (i.e.
4.1Mb), so it is definatly possiable. Once again, I will look into it.

> It's getting there....being able to grab all the correct gnome deps is a
> huge thing.

It was cool! ;^)

> side topic....can grab recurse through a tree for rpms?
> example the gnome.org site has an ftp tree setup where each rpm is down
> in a subdirectory named by package....the rpm's are not all in one
> directory.  Would it be worth implementing a server tag like servertree
> to tell grab to tranverse an ftp tree looking for all rpm's down the
> tree?

Nope. Maybe one day, but not today. This can be dangerous (i.e.
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.org//). I will still look into it.

Greg

> -jef
> 
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:57, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> > OK, finally... GRAB is really doing deps! I was able to install Gtk-perl on a
> > system that had NO GTK/GNOME!!! All of the package and file dependencies were
> > resolved. To get this level of dependency resolution you will need to
> > configure the provides database will full functionality (you will see in the
> > defaults config file). Also I moved around a bunch of the configuration file
> > declarations to be more intuitive.
> > 
> > There is still some functionality left out, but for the most part, it works!
> > 
> > Questions, bugs, issues, recommendations are needed because there are a lot of
> > new features.
> > 
> > Greg
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