On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Florian Festi wrote:
When we think of a Fedora that has grown another order of magnitude (may be
2015) it will become hard to argue against a more centralized solution. Right
now we are not at the point where the pain of the local repo db does out
weight the complexity of a web service architecture IMHO.
no - I think it'll be hard to argue why we need 20K pkgs in a single
repository. Or hell, why we need 20K pkgs AT ALL.
But there is another way to drastically reduce the amount of data that has to
be transferred: Delta meta data
The repo data bases could be split up into deltas in a similar way as done
with the delta rpms aka presto. As a result the meta data of each package
would be downloaded (more or less) exactly once. While this idea is arround
for a while an implementation is still missing...
1. this is what he asked on yum-devel list. I told him there was the
beginning of an implementation but it was never completed. He made it
clear on yum-devel, at least, he didn't have the time to do any work on
this - just that he wanted to tell us how he felt.
2. you still have to get the original metadata
-sv
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