Re: [PATCH 0/3] Preliminaries for headerless install callback

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On 02/18/2011 04:22 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Traditionally yum has used (rpm-header, path) tuple as the "key" for
> callback to locate the package to-be-installed, but this has the
> downside of keeping the full rpm headers of all installed packages
> to be loaded throughout the entire transaction, wasting (tens of)
> megabytes of memory when it only really needs is nevra info to locate
> the relevant yum package object.

Not only that, it wastes 2.5 minutes during a fresh install,
extracting the header from each .rpm into a .hdr file.
For a DVD the constant seeking is hard on the drive.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522838

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