Re: [poky] dnf5 and libdnf5 target release?

Frede Braendstrup <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:45:33 +0000

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 01:01:33PM +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 12:25, Niko Mauno <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On related note, about 5 weeks ago we briefly tried out if using dnf5 would yield any improvement in do_rootfs() turnaround time -- which it didn't (later on realized others seemed to also have expressed their surprise on lack of dnf5 performance improvement over dnf4 in some online discussion threads).
> 
> I'm not surprised. The bulk of do_rootfs is creating a repository
> index (not done by dnf), resolving dependencies (not done by dnf), and
> unpacking and writing out .rpm content (also not done by dnf). Dnf5
> might feel snappier in interactive command line sessions, but
> otherwise the whole project seems somewhat misguided.

For context, I wasn't after performance improvements, but rather the
native dbus interface provided by dnf5. I would be fine with just the
feature set, but I'll find another way, Thanks.

Frede

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