Michael Schroeder wrote:
> I don't think this is hard to implement, but there's a little detail
> that needs to be discussed: what should happen if the filelists.xml
> download fails? This can happen because the metadata has been rewritten
> in the meantime.
Doesn't that race condition already ex
Sure extending the whitelist -- either through hard coded patterns or an actual
list -- obviates the need for downloading bloated file lists.
Those techniques simply move "useful" data out of file lists and into another
file, either primary.xml or a whitelist.
Patterns (and Provides: /path) ha
At the risk of again being banned from Fedora, I point out this thread from
2011, discussing/measuring various techniques for reducing the size of metadata
containing many file paths for Mandriva
http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/.html
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Bloom filters have false positives that can lead to difficult to predict
behavior.
The core proble(s) being reported with file dependencies is the size of the
download, the cost of the load, and the size/number of copies one for each
location managed by dnf. These are all problems that are stra
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 04:36:07PM +, Zbigniew J??drzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> this mail is a continuation of an FPC [1] and a FESCo [2] tickets.
>
> A proposal was made is to disallow packages in Fedora from using file
> deps, and to optimize dnf to not load filelists.xml. File deps would
> stil
On 08/06/2018 04:42 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Whether dnf does what yum does misses the point:
Lazy downloading of file dependencies did not work then and does not work now.
Here's why:
The fundamental decision made by depsolvers is what packages are "newer" and
need to be upgraded.
When _ANY_
Whether dnf does what yum does misses the point:
Lazy downloading of file dependencies did not work then and does not work now.
Here's why:
The fundamental decision made by depsolvers is what packages are "newer" and
need to be upgraded.
When _ANY_ commonly used package has a file dependency o
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 07:52:03PM +0200, Robert-André Mauchin wrote:
> On lundi 6 août 2018 18:36:07 CEST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > Hi dnf and libsolv developers,
> >
> > this mail is a continuation of an FPC [1] and a FESCo [2] tickets.
> >
> > A proposal was made is to disallow pa
On lundi 6 août 2018 18:36:07 CEST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Hi dnf and libsolv developers,
>
> this mail is a continuation of an FPC [1] and a FESCo [2] tickets.
>
> A proposal was made is to disallow packages in Fedora from using file
> deps, and to optimize dnf to not load filelists
