Re: [Cooker] urpmi-1.7-3mdk

[François Pons]

"Vox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>       3. Why is urpmi's list so big? when you do "apt-get update" you get a
> 1.44meg file, when you do "urpmi update" (or whatever the command is...haven't
> used urpmi in ages due to the damn size of the depfile) you get an 8+meg file!
> why? can't this be fixed?

urpmi does not just install package with dependancies, the synthesis file
contains just the necessary to make install.

Furthermore you can build hdlist from rpm file list, and this can be used to
resolve dependencies later as well as searching file and so on, try urpmf.

>       Vox, who'd love to leave apt behind for urpmi, but can't because 8meg
> vs 1.44 megs is a significant thing on dialup

We will maybe add features to use only synthesis file instead of whole hdlist,
but this may cost some features which are used (file list, used in rpmdrake
too).

François.