Re: lets talk about dependancies again...

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 23:02, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> OK, RedHat8 is using RPM41, so I really should get on the ball here. I have
> several options moving forward. I already got GRAB to deal with RPM41, but it
> is not very quick (the older version of RPM seemed to do the remote provides
> gathering MUCHMUCH quicker). I will need to do something about this.
> 
> Has anyone played with the new version of RPM enough to know how to create
> several RPM datbases, and merge them into one? 

I haven't tried doing any of this...let me get 8.0 installed on the beta
box...and play around with it this weekend.

This way I can have the GRAB
> friendly repository build an RPM database for each repository directory (via a
> tarball), and bring them local and merge them. Then I can run some tools
> against that database to obtain requires info. I am still throwing around
> ideas, so speak up if you have one...

this should definitely speed things up a whole hell of a lot...but it's
not clear to me that this is necessary just because of rpm 4.1...I
didn't notice a huge speed difference between grab on the beta box when
I tested it.  Maybe the is a clever selection of rpm arguments that
could speed up the remote header grabbing.  And instead of a
tarball...maybe a relocatable rpm would be better.    

-jef

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