On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:40:36AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I'm not arguing that's how yum works now, but it doesn't have to work > > that way! > > > > It could incrementally download the RPMs during depsolving, test that > > they work together, and with that information download further > > packages as necessary ... > > I don't think that's practical, at all. For one, it'd mean a lot of wasted > downloading if the transaction turns out to be unresolvable. There are > probably also other practical issues with that idea. Transactions shouldn't ever be unresolvable (barring gross errors such as network being completely unavailable or every mirror being down). I think it should be possible to make repos that are always self-consistent even when mirrors only partially mirror or delay content. I have in mind a great proof of this, but this email is too small to contain it. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
