Re: createrepo, --update and the sqlite database

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:55 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:28:55 -0400
> Mike McLean <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Since I wrote the --update code, I guess I should be the one. I'll
> > look at this this week. I suspect this will be nontrivial (i.e. at
> > least as much work as the original --update patch).
> 
> I have to wonder just how much time is really saved here though.  I
> thought that once createrepo is to the point of dumping to an sqlite
> file that it has all the information from the xml files in question and
> it doesn't have to go touching every package in the tree which is where
> the real time delays come in.  Also the code that is generating the
> sqlite content is compiled C and quite fast IIRC.  Are we really
> expecting a significant speedup here?
> 

Jesse,
 Your in large part correct. However, if we want to create database
'diffs' then something along these lines will need to happen anyway...
-sv