New development release

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:09:32PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op Sunday 17 June 2007 14:40:35 schreef Panu Matilainen:
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Richard Bos wrote:
> > > Hi Panu,
> > >
> > > it's good to see that keep on improving apt-rpm!
> > >
> > > Op Saturday 16 June 2007 23:48:06 schreef Panu Matilainen:
> > >> What's new since 0.5.15lorg3.90:
> > >>
> > >> * support for sqlite repomd metadata, automatically used if present
> > >
> > > What is the advantage of using sqlite for repomd data?  What is used
> > > nowadays?
> >
> > It's a pretty new thing, only latest yum such as in Fedora 7 supports it
> > and now apt-rpm. 
> 
> Do you mean that the server provides the repomd in an sqlite db?  Or is the 
> same repomd file used and is that loaded into a sqlite db on the client?

It's on the server, but then can be used directly on the client.

> > The advantages are memory usage savings and random access 
> > speed, both improve *enormously* with sqlite:
> >
> > On my F7 x86_64 system, 3.91 doing a full cache rebuild tops at around
> > 222MB RES with xml metadata and around 33MB with sqlite. Random access (to
> > the actual package indexs, such as when calculating download and disk
> > usage size during install/upgrade) speed increase is of similar order of
> > magnitude, probably even bigger. The price is slightly larger index
> > downloads, but well worth the benefits IMHO.
> >
> > >> * upped cache limits for todays bigger repositories
> > >> * improved multilib setup, runtime configurable
> > >> * various repomd related optimizations
> > >> * several large memory leaks plugged
> > >> * installation progress API
> > >> * add API for package changelog and file listing access, implement
> > >>    access methods in Lua-interface, apt-cache and apt-shell
> > >> * various code cleanups
> > >> * known regressions
> > >>    - "apt-get update" re-downloads unchanged indexes
> > >
> > > Hmm, will this be hard to fix?  For me this is a showstopper.
> >
> > Probably not hard, just haven't gotten around to it :)
> 
> Probably related to the question above is the a kind of new database format 
> (sqlite) and is this one downloaded each time.  Or is the repomd that we are 
> used downloaded each time?  In case it is the former (new db format) than it 
> is no showstopper, as you already stated there are hardly any distributions 
> offering the sqlite db.  Looking forward to you reply ;)

There is Fedora 7.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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