Re: Is there an easy way to get a simple dict of rpm attributes from xml metadata?

> That did the trick, thanks.
> 
> > > Apart from this, yum does really nice here on SuSE 9.3 ;)
> > >
> > > No excessive memory hogging any more like in 2.0 times, and it feels
> > > fast, man..
> >
> > good, good.
> 
> Would you accept a patch to genpkgmetadata.py for an --update option, checking 
> timestamps before shooting? 
> 
> It still has to be done, but will be a nice job while on plane in my holiday. 
> Will do it anyway, but knowing it _may_ be accepted upstream is a major call 
> to do it well. ;)
> 

if you can make the --update option not consume a huge amount of memory,
yes, I will accept it. Every mechanism I've been able to come up with
for --update either involved:
 1. a big cache dir that stores all this information broken apart
(bleah)
 2. or reading in all the current xml and storing it in memory - which
is not-small.

-sv