Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate gone

[David Odin]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:33:54AM +0100, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Bwa ha ha ha!  Who's got a Cray to run that thing?  Even on my 800MHz
> > Athlon it takes literally minutes to get it going.  On my PIII 600MHz
> > I gave up before it got up and running.  I am sure we all here don't
> > have close to GHz machines.  I feel sorry for the poor bastard who is
> > still running a 2 or 3 hundred MHz PII.
> 
> yes, rpmdrake is currently buggy but the authors is working on fixing it.
> 

  Due to some limitation of packdrake/urpmi, rpmdrake has to unpack and
build the whole rpm database in memory when launched. So, yes, this
dos take time and memory. I'm working on a workaround.

                            DindinX

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