Re: metadata layout problems and some history

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 00:00 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > There have been some small changes over the years but I believe none
> > that have broken the parsers of any of tools.
> 
> The biggest changes for smart was the change to the sha256 checksums
> and unique-md-filenames which meant old cache files weren't deleted.
> 
> > Then what happened was all of the folks using/maintaining the tools
> > found issues they had to work around and so we did:
> 
> > - Smart runs an indexer over the xml files to generate the byte-offset
> > locations of pkgs in the xml file so it can seek to those locations
> > quickly.
> 
> Except that quick-er doesn't mean that it still wasn't dog slow...
> 
>     "Well, at least having an index cuts list time from
>      30 minutes to 30 seconds. On the other hand, that is
>      still ridiculously slow compared to the usual 3...
>      So I don't think the cache size/startup time matters ?"
> 
> So neither metadata nor sqlite has been merged into the trunk.
> It's all being stored in the cache, instead of using XML/SQL.
> 

So help me understand what would make your situation better? What would
make the rpm-md less problematic for smart?

-sv


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