On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > Eberhard, it shouldn't be a big deal to run
> > "createrepo /pub/linux/misc/suser-drcux/"
> > on ftp.gwdg.de. That would make this repo "YaST compatible" (at least
> > for 10.0).
>
> I think that could be a big deal because Eberhard is hosting a few
> thousands of RPMs on gwdg.de, and creating the APT metadata almost
> already pushes the limits, from what I know.
Using the cache mechanism of createrepo + integrating it with atp4rpm
(there is a huge overlap) wouldn't increase the load on ftp4.gwdg.de that
much ;)
> What Eberhard is referring to is that we, as package builders that are
> hosted on gwdg.de, should run createrepo on our own boxes so that when
> gwdg.de syncs to fetch our RPMs, it just needs to download the already
> generated metadata instead of having to compute it on its own. Trading
> bandwidth for CPU cycles and I/O.
>
> I'll try to have a look at that createrepo and add yum support to my
> packages. We'll see how it works and whether it's a better option for
> Eberhart.
Yes, that's definitely the better option...
> Also, most of us 3rd party packagers are not only offering packages for
> 10.0 You know I have it all the way up from 9.0 to 10.0, and I have a
> few scripts that generate the YaST2 repository metadata on my build box.
Yum will be available for 9.1-9.3 very soon in my people dir (I'm
building those packages as I write this...)
Regards
Christoph
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