On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:28 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > Technically, I don't see any need for apt to adopt yum's repodata > > > format. Politically, this requirement is introduced by RH not wanting to > > > add apt-repositories and fedora.us apparently being unable to set up > > > complete repositories. If apt-repositories are cleverly set up, the > > > additional overhead they introduce in addition to the original files > > > becomes more or less negligible. > > > > Well, generating repositories demands a lot of a system. Generating 3 > > different repositories (apt, old-yum, new-yum) is really becoming an > > issue and prevents me from releasing updates flexibly. If I have to wait > > 30 to 45 minutes before I can starting syncing with a mirror, I delay that > > sometimes until the next time I'm online which could be 24h later. > > Try aptate from apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net - Try the > version from CVS-head, the released tarballs are troublesome) and feel > free to ask me on PM in case of problems :-) Afaics, aptate just calls genbasedir, yum-arch or createrepo. Each of them largely doing the same thing and reading 14GB worth of packages. What I need is either reduce the number of metadata formats that I support (client-side support) or a much more efficient way of generating the metadata in a single run. (incrementally update metadata could work too) -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
