On 3 September 2011 18:52, Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote: >> xml-info is used for the data not found in synthesis. > > At one point I started to look at using dbxml to read these, which could > make rpmdrake much faster... it uses the bsd db package to keep an index > of XML documents so you can search without having to parse again, for > example...but dbxml wasn't packaged. I could look into it again; dbxml > has APIs in multiple languages (including Perl as well as many others).
Pardon me but I'm quite a bit skeptical before absence of numbers. I think you don't know what is slow in rpmdrake... Though urpm::media::configure does consumes a couple seconds to parse synthesis, what is actually slow is then computing the updates You cant claim doing this or that would speed up anything without actually testing something first...
