Re: puplet/pup/yum-updatesd... rethinking the mechanism

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seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 17:23 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > > > Still, why does it need computed again?
> > > 
> > > What if something has changed since the last time the daemon ran?  There
> > > are cases which could end up installing/updating packages which you had
> > > since done a removal around.  And in any case, as long as the interface
> > > is doing the updating, you have to have done all the hard stuff around
> > > finding "what are the updates"
> > 
> > But, if nothing has changed, why would it need to recompute dependencies (which
> > it currently does...)
> 
> how do we know if nothing has changed? Are we going to take a checksum
> of the rpmdb?

Heh. I suppose you could keep a timestamp, or the log of the last rpm transaction.
Being able to do this simply would actually be a reason to have the code daemon-side.

Bill

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