On 25. 5. 2013 at 09:34:32, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Michael Ekstrand <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Performance improvement: improve scaling to 5K+ installed packages. > > * Amen. This is particularly compounded by poor caching default > behavior, so that a few yum commands in a row each wind up reaching > out to downloading metadata again, and again, and again. > > I think this can be addressed by moving the metadata updates to a > different function, and calling it *separately* only as needed. The > Debian "apt" tool does this quite effectively. Unfortunately there is not much we can do about this. Debian has completely different repository policy - they keep all versions of packages in the repo so there is no need to update metadata on client machines every time. > * Script parseable output without extraneous labeling. > > The output of "yum list is cluttered with unnecessary headers, and > whitespace handling that winds up trimming package names or inserting > extraneous new lines. I'd fiind it invaluable if "yum list --tsv" gave > a tab separated variables list of: > > name version release arch reponame > > And leave *OFF* the "Installed Packages" and "Available Packages" > entries for such tab separated variable output. I loathe having to > sort those out for scriptable operations. Interesting idea, might be worth looking into. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
