On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 23:53 +0530, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote:
> After discussions with a few developers on IRC, we came to draw out a
> few points --
>
> 1. We need to pass only the metadata that has changed, preferably in
> the form of an xml document (along with the checksum of this delta).
> The
After discussions with a few developers on IRC, we came to draw out a
few points --
1. We need to pass only the metadata that has changed, preferably in
the form of an xml document (along with the checksum of this delta).
The changed or new packages will have all the information just like
normal m
Hi,
I did some experiments with parallelizing metadata downloads
using the 'bulk urlgrab' api. Metadata initialization code
is pretty complex so I only came to a 'staged' 3-pass solution
1st pass: update metalink files.
2nd pass: update repomd files.
3rd pass: update sqlite files.
Each stage ru
