Re: createrepo 0.4.11

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:39:21AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 14:25 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello Seth,
> > 
> > below is a patch to sort the output, otherwise createrepo
> > depends on the order of the local filesystem and how rpms
> > are stored there.
> 
> Why does the order matter? Doesn't this just take more time to do the
> sort?

It makes the metadata predictable and not dependent on the fs of the
server. The additional time should not matter at all here.

regards,

Florian La Roche