On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:37:35 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Is there a way to run repoview on the normal packages such that it > doesn't recreate new files on every run, wasting everyone's bandwidth > who has to sync the new files over and over again, even though their > contents should be identical to the ones generated before? Short answer: It doesn't recreate files by default. Since end of October, any repoview page that is updated contains changes actually. Long answer: Inside the repoview code, it is called "smartWrite" and doesn't rewrite a html page when its checksum is unchanged, Still, Repoview recreates more files than necessary, because adding/removing packages changes the list of adjacent package names in the left frame of every page. But to make it worse, old code in the extras-repoview.py script removed the entire repoview directory prior to running createrepo, because its existence breaks createrepo <= 0.4.4. So, for a long time, all repoview files have been created from scratch. It has not been considered a problem, and I haven't had interest in the repoview script either until reviewing it begun. By chance, around the same time, Jakub Jelinek contacted me and told me that the thousands of recreated repoview pages cause a lot of unnecessary load for mirrors (even with rsync), and I committed a fix for it on Oct, 28th. Since that day, any file that is updated by Repoview contains changes actually. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
