On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:30 -0800, PF wrote: > I was thinking of ways of speeding up what I (as a user) see as "the > slow bits" of Yum. > > One thing is that Yum has to know when repositories have changed, and > currently it uses http or ftp for that. Could it use DNS, as the ClamAV > project does? > > DNS is very scalable, has lots of caching, and is fairly solid. And > it's faster than downloading an XML file, because downloading requires a > DNS lookup first. > > % nslookup -q=txt repositoryversion.fedora.redhat.com > Non-authoritative answer: > repositoryversion.fedora.redhat.com text = "As of 2006-03-28, > this repository is at Version 5.0.1. This message's signature: > e84f1115fe94" > > See 'nslookup -q=txt current.cvd.clamav.net' for a working (though > cryptic) example. > > Is there merit in copying this idea for Yum? wouldn't that mean you'd need a hostname and txt entry for each repository on a server? So if I had 25 repositories on a single webserver (which I do) I would need a separate host and txt entry for each one? That seems a bit cumbersome, doesn't it? -sv
