On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:12 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Not quite. aptate uses a cache to check for which rpms have been added > to a repository since the last time it has been run, and then > incrementally builds the apt-repositories. Could we have this functionality added to genbasedir ? genbasedir already does some caching afaik. > Give it a try, initially building the repositories (setting up the > cache) takes a lot of time, but updating repositories, after a couple of > packages have been added to it is fast. What does the implementation do exactly ? Does it use mtime ? How does it add or replace a single package ? > As far as yum is concerned, you are right. yum repositories are re-built > instead of being incrementally built, however even they are only built > if a package had been added or removed from the repository. Well, in most cases I rebuild 1 package for all distributions, so it affects all repositories. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
