On 13.02.2015 08:11, Casey Jao wrote:
How feasible would it be to keep the listings in primary.xml and
filelists.xml sorted by package name and arch? Doing so could open the door
to simple and efficient diffs of repository metadata.
Something like pdiffs in Debian?
Those two are by far the
Hi,
there's been some work in progress already:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850896
Proof-of-concept code (to be merged into dnf/createrepo_c in the future):
https://github.com/Tojaj/DeltaRepo
The idea behind that is simple:
* create deltas as small repos on server
* download
How feasible would it be to keep the listings in primary.xml and
filelists.xml sorted by package name and arch? Doing so could open the door
to simple and efficient diffs of repository metadata.
Createrepo_c [1] keeps packages sorted by filename [2] by default.
Sorting based on filenames was
How feasible would it be to keep the listings in primary.xml and
filelists.xml sorted by package name and arch? Doing so could open the door
to simple and efficient diffs of repository metadata.
I recently ran some quick tests using python and elementtree. While the F21
primary.xml files from 2/7
